little Ctrl-C inconvenience

Chris Faylor cgf@cygnus.com
Thu Aug 5 15:22:00 GMT 1999


On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 11:54:59PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>this effect is not so important but I mention it for completeness.
>
>If CYGWIN is set to `tty' and you start a shell in a console window, pressing
>Ctrl-C leads into a logout of the shell.
>Interesting: This is true only, if the shell is the process, that opens
>the console window. If you start another shell in this shell, the effect
>is not reproducable in the subshell. After returning to the parent shell,
>it's reproducable again.
>
>This happens neither with CYGWIN=notty nor in a terminal emulation.

Thanks.  I'll look into this.  I know it was working correctly not
too long ago.  I wonder how I broke it.

cgf


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