DOS pause command hangs in batch files

[Takashi Yano]

On Sun, 31 Jul 2022 09:52:06 +0500
Kamran wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I use some batch (*.bat/*.cmd) files for my work.
> 
> I usually work from within cygwin/mintty
> 
> Last year (i.e. from June 2021),
> "pause" command (from DOS era) hangs
> the batch file, until ^C is pressed.
> 
> Lately pressing ^C does nothing, and
> I have to kill the mintty process
> from task-manager.
> 
> This happens only when the batch file
> is started from mintty. Not from cmd.
> 
> uname -a
> 
> CYGWIN_NT-10.0-19044 pc 3.3.5-341.x86_64 2022-05-13 12:27 UTC x86_64 Cygwin
> 
> mintty version 3.6.1

Thanks for the report. I will fix it shortly.

-- 
Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>