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Date:	Fri, 11 Jan 2002 06:54:02 -0800
To:	"Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From:	Andy Piper <andyp AT bea DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Ash spawning win32 programs (was Re: bash/cmd CTRL-C
	problem...)
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At 01:22 AM 1/12/2002 +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Andy Piper" <andyp AT bea DOT com>
>
> > ash script pid reported by shell:       828
> > ash script pid in task manager:         856
> > java pid reported by ps                 1640    PPID 828
> > java pid reported by task mnager        1640
> > bash pid                                1248
>
>Right, so we've got a win32 process, _with no cygwin stub_. This is a
>lot harder to solve than the one Chris and I just solved. The
>fundamental difference being that when you CTRL-C in the console window,
>every attached program recieves a win32 CTRLC interrupt. Your java
>program - by virtue of not quitting - is either deliberately ignoring
>those interrupts, or is a gui program with a hidden window. (are you
>running javaw or javac?).

Its a console app that happily responds to ^C. If you run it directly from 
within bash then ^C works, so I assume from what you say above that this is 
a bug of some description.

>For console programs, the CTRL-C in the window should work fine. kill
>(script) won't work (because no keyboard interrupt is generated).
>
> > BTW with the script started in the background (or indeed fg and ^Z)
>kill %1
> > does not work (it used to) it is reported as terminated but is still
>running.
>
>The script dies quite happily for me. The win32 process doesn't though
>(as expected).

I guess I don't understand why this is expected. It always used to work 
(i.e. the subprocess would get killed also).

>The key question here is : what semantics should apply to a _non signal
>aware program_ when cygwin detects a signal is generated for it?
>
>I.e., to pick a couple, for SIGINT and SIGKILL.
>
>One is obvious, we call (IIRC) TerminateProcess and *boom* it's gone.
>Hope your work was saved.

Er, why isn't it signal aware. It is AFAIK.

andy


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