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Re: Ctrl-Z fails to suspend Windows programs
Warren Young wrote:
John Cooper wrote:
The problem is that I often don't want to have to terminate the GUI
app just to
get my shell prompt back.
Well now, that's an entirely different deal.
Somehow, cmd.exe detects that a program is GUI-only, and it gives you
your prompt back when the program has launched. I suspect it would be
better to find out how cmd.exe manages that trick than to put Ctrl-Z
support into Cygwin that will likely break some non-Cygwin programs.
One way to do this would be for Cygwin's exec() to look at the PE header
for the program and see if it has the console mode flag set. If not, it
could do whatever the Cygwin 'run' program does to spin the program off,
detached from the shell.
That would be totally inconsistent how shells work. IMO, adding
ampresand at end of command works as intended and is consistent how
things work in *nixes
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Jani Tiainen
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