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Re: rxvt ctrl-c killing process
- From: Sven KÃhler <sven dot koehler at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:42:46 +0100
- Subject: Re: rxvt ctrl-c killing process
- References: <27221260.post@talk.nabble.com>
Am 19.01.2010 06:52, schrieb David Smiley @MITRE.org:
> Greetings folks.
> I have been fed-up with the default GUI shell on Cygwin, being used to the
> great Terminal that comes with Mac OS X. Some googling around uncovered
> that I should try "rxvt". My experience with rxvt is pretty good, after
> reading online some basic configuration tips. But unfortunately I've come
> across a deal-breaker and I'm not sure exactly what the culprit is. If I
> run a java program from rxvt and control-C it (i.e. SIGINT) then it seems to
> kill -9 it instead of letting the program catch the signal to terminate. I
> found a quickie Java code sample online that anyone can quickly compile and
> try for themselves: http://waelchatila.com/2006/01/13/1137143896635.html
> save to CtrlC.java then type "javac CtrlC" then "java -cp . CtrlC" and
> then hit ctrl-c. It works properly in Cygwin's default GUI shell but not
> rxvt.
>
> I *did* try searching the lists but didn't really find a resolution.
Please install mintty (via Cygwin setup).
AFAIK, rxvt is deprecated.
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