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Control-C now propagates to child processes
- From: David Arnstein <arnstein at pobox dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 23:58:46 -0700
- Subject: Control-C now propagates to child processes
Here is a behavior that I believe began with the cygwin updates of
2005-05-16.
I launch a cygwin command window running the bash shell. From there, I
run "startxwin.sh." Yes, this is a X11 launcher, but please bear with
me. I think this is a core cygwin issue, not a cygwin/X11 issue.
As a result of executing startwin.sh, an xterm window appears. It also
runs the bash shell. Now I have two windows showing: the original
cygwin command window, and an xterm window.
If I type control-c into the original cygwin command window, then the
xterm window gets the interrupt, along with the original cygwin command
window. Programs running in both windows get terminated.
I looked into startxwin.sh. The way this shell launches xterm is
xterm -e /usr/bin/bash -l &
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