Re: Ctrl-C issue for Windows program

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 04:24:31PM -0500, Wm. David Bentlage wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 12:57:09PM -0500, Wm. David Bentlage wrote:
>>>Christopher,
>>>
>>>>>My issue started with 1.7.10 and remains the same in 1.7.13.
>>>>
>>>> Does today's snapshot (when it shows up) work any better?
>>>
>>>I tried cygwin-inst-20120415.tar.bz2.
>>>
>>>$ uname -a
>>>CYGWIN_NT-5.2 server 1.7.14s(0.260/5/3) 20120415 17:52:03 i686 Cygwin
>>>
>>>The issue remains the same.
>>
>> Could you recount the actual issue then using off-the-shelf
>> Windows commands as found in windows\system32 ?
>
>Here are a couple approaches.
>
>1) On my Windows server 2003 system:
>
>CYGWIN_NT-5.2 server 1.7.9(0.237/5/3) 2011-03-29 10:10 i686 Cygwin
>
>Execute the following in a mintty window at a bash prompt:
>
>$ C:/winnt/system32/help sc
>
>This prompts with "Would you like to see help for the QUERY and
>QUERYEX commands? [ y | n ]:"
>
>Pressing Ctrl-C terminates the query and returns to the bash prompt.
>On the same server using CYGWIN_NT-5.2 server 1.7.14s(0.260/5/3)
>20120415 17:52:03 i686 Cygwin, Ctrl-C leaves me with a hung window.
>
>2) I can achieve a similar effect by the following process.
>
>In an mintty window at a bash prompt:
>
>$ cmd
>Microsoft Windows [Version 5.2.3790]
>(C) Copyright 1985-2003 Microsoft Corp.
>
>C:\>date
>date
>The current date is: Tue 04/17/2012
>Enter the new date: (mm-dd-yy)
>
>Pressing Ctrl-C using 1.7.9 returns me to a bash prompt, using 1.7.14s
>leaves me with a hung window.
>
>I can repeat 2) on XP with 1.7.9 and 1.7.10.  Specifically, these versions:
>
>CYGWIN_NT-5.1 pc 1.7.9(0.237/5/3) 2011-03-29 10:10 i686 Cygwin
>CYGWIN_NT-5.1 pc 1.7.10(0.259/5/3) 2012-02-05 12:36 i686 Cygwin

Thanks for the test case.  Yes, I got the fact that it worked better in
older versions.  No need to keep stressing that.

cgf

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