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Date:	Tue, 17 Jul 2001 15:36:54 -0400
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: broken CTRL-BREAK handling
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In-Reply-To:	<8F23E55D511AD5119A6800D0B76FDDE1CA2EEE@cpex3.channelpoint.com>; from troy.noble@channelpoint.com on Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 01:00:25PM -0600

On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 01:00:25PM -0600, Troy Noble wrote:
>In exceptions.cc:ctrl_c_handler
>
>I think the following code should be added:
>
>  /* Return FALSE to allow other control handlers to handle CTRL-BREAK */
>  if (type == CTRL_BREAK_EVENT)
>      return FALSE;
>
>before the section of code that checks the pids, sids, pgids etc. and
>eventually culminates in a
>
>      kill (-myself->pid, SIGINT);
>
>Without this code, the current behavior in cygwin 1.3.2 is to send
>SIGINT to the process group whether you press CTRL-C or
>CTRL-BREAK.

Cygwin has considered CTRL-BREAK to be the same thing as CTRL-C for
about five years or so.

The fact that this inconveniences JDK is regrettable but I'm not going
to change well established behavior just to accomodate some non-cygwin
program.

cgf

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