The old native (non-cygwin) port of zsh would somehow detect if it was about to
exec a Windows app, and run it as a background process, thus returning a zsh
prompt immediately. Could something like this be added to cygwin bash/zsh?
This was very useful. With the cygwin zsh, I often find myself invoking a
Windows app and not being able to get back to the shell window without first
terminating the Windows app.
--- John
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor
Sent: 15 June 2004 14:13
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Ctrl-Z fails to suspend Windows programs
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 03:37:05PM +0300, Jani tiainen wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 09:58:16AM +0100, John Cooper wrote:
>>>Is it a known limitation that "native" Windows programs cannot be
>>>suspended?
>>
>>Yes. Window programs do not understand cygwin signals.
>
>Thats true for cygwin part. Native programs still can be
>suspended/resumed but not by cygwin (or shell that is running and
>waiting finishing of active process).
It is true for any part that Windows programs do not understand cygwin signals.
There is no way to reliably suspend a Windows programs.
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