SIGINT generated by Control-C, is not delivered in mintty

Ronald Fischer ynnor@mm.st
Mon Jul 20 10:59:00 GMT 2015


On Fri, Jul 17, 2015, at 21:03, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> Am 14.07.2015 um 09:44 schrieb Ronald Fischer:
> > Using Cygwin 64 on Windows 7:
> >
> > In a bash or zsh running inside mintty, pressing Control-C has no
> > effect.  In a bash or zsh running in a Windows Console, it works fine.
> Ronald, can you please clarify on the question: how did you start mintty 
> (desktop shortcut or command line from cygwin console) because that 
> might make a difference.

Indeed, it does! When starting it from a desktop shortcut, it works, but
when started as a background process, it doesn't.

Ronald

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