Ctrl+C not working with windows programs in Cygwin 1.7.16

Roger K. Wells ROGER.K.WELLS@saic.com
Thu Aug 2 21:55:00 GMT 2012


On 08/02/2012 05:21 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> On 8/2/2012 2:02 PM, Roger K. Wells wrote:
>> On 08/02/2012 04:26 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote:
>>> On 8/2/2012 12:32 PM, Marcin Kielar wrote:
>>>> Steps to reproduce:
>>>>
>>>> 1. Start cygwin using cygwin.bat
>>>> 2. Run `ping -t google.com`
>>>> 3. Try breaking it with Ctrl+C
>>> This problem arises from Cygwin's use of CREATE_NEW_PROCESS_GROUP. From MSDN:
>>>
>>> "When a process is created with CREATE_NEW_PROCESS_GROUP specified, an implicit
>>> call to SetConsoleCtrlHandler(NULL,TRUE) is made on behalf of the new process;
>>> this means that the new process has CTRL+C disabled. This lets shells handle
>>> CTRL+C themselves, and selectively pass that signal on to sub-processes.
>>> CTRL+BREAK is not disabled, and may be used to interrupt the process/process
>>> group."
>>>
>>> SetConsoleCtrlHandler(NULL,TRUE) tells a process and all its children to ignore
>>> control-C. This problem only affects programs run in a console --- in a pty,
>>> Cygwin just terminates Windows processes in response to SIGINT.
>>>
>> This may be true but it is a recent development.
> ISTR a change a little while ago that made Cygwin not send SIGINT to processes
> controlled by actual consoles (as opposed to ptys) under the assumption that the
> Windows console machinery would do the job. It looks like the two changes
> interact unpleasantly.
>
>
I can't tell how much I want the old way back.  I'll have to start using 
the MS command prompt.
Getting a PID & using kill just takes too long.

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