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Re: ctrl-c not working during bash command line editing


On Mar  2 11:18, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mar  1 19:22, Kitchens wrote:
> > I've noticed this as well, and it seems to be a difference between
> > /dev/consX and /dev/ptyX ttys. Mintty seems to work fine, whereas
> > cmd.exe or Console2 (basically a cmd wrapper) cannot CTRL+C on the
> > command line to abort it. Ctrl+C does, however, issue a SIGINT for a
> > running process.
> 
> Confirmed.  If you start an interactive subshell, Ctrl-C starts working
> again in there, so this only affects the parent process in a console.
> 
> I think I see where this is coming from.  I applied a patch to CVS which
> fixes this issue, at least for applications calling tcsetattr, like
> interactive processes usually do.  AFAICS, there's another patch required
> for non-interactive processes.

No, that was based on a wrong assumption, apparently.  All apps I started
could be stopped w/ Ctrl-C now.


Corinna

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