Sven Köhler: > David Smiley: >> 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).
I'm afraid that won't help with this issue. All a terminal does when Ctrl+C is pressed is write a ^C character to its pseudo terminal device (pty), and it's the pty driver that handles it (depending on the pty's settings): Cygwin processes are sent a SIGINT signal, but Windows processes such as Java are terminated outright. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
