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Re: CTRL-C kills ALL processes, not just foreground process.


On Sep 22 09:40, Big Action wrote:
> When I hit CTRL-C to end the current process (e.g. cat some_long_file), ALL 
> my other processes die with it, not just the current process I'm trying to 
> terminate.  It's getting annoying, and I haven't been able to figure out 
> why this happens, or how to fix it.
> 
> I work on a Windows machine running Cygwin.  I use Cygwin to ssh to a linux 
> machine and launch my development tools from there (editor, source control, 
> etc).  These applications run like a charm on my machine using KDE on 
> Cygwin the X Window tunnelling in SSH.
> 
> Even when I use CTRL-C in a separate cygwin window than the one I am 
> ssh'ing from, my ssh connection dies, killing my editor, source control 
> GUI, etc.
> 
> 
> Can I fix this somehow, so that sending a CTRL-C signal to a running 
> process ONLY kills that process, and NOT everything else that's running?

This should be fixed in recent developer snapshots, try the latest from
http://cygwin.com/snapshots/


Corinna

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