Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/01/22/05:45:11
On Wednesday 22 Jan 03, duncan DOT loveday AT bt DOT com writes:
> Igor,
>
> Cheers - but I just tried that and it didn't have any effect. That variable
> is not set by default in either the console or rxvt.
>
> Bummer.
>
> Duncan.
Did you set CYGWIN before starting *any* Cygwin programs? Put it in
your system environment and reboot.
David
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu]
> Sent: 21 January 2003 19:25
> To: Loveday,DAH,Duncan,YEE24 R
> Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: SIGINT to bash behaves differently in rxvt as compared to
> console
>
>
> On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 duncan DOT loveday AT bt DOT com wrote:
>
> > I find on a Windows NT4 (SP6) platform with the latest versions
> (downloaded
> > today) of cygwin1.dll, rxvt, bash etc that if I run a windows command
> > script, say a.cmd, which in turn runs some other process (e.g. a pause),
> if
> > I hit ^C then the behaviour is different in rxvt as compared to the cygwin
> > console.
> >
> > In the console, the process being run by the command script is always
> > interrupted and then sometimes the rest of the command script continues to
> > execute but sometimes it says 'Terminate batch job (Y/N)' in which case if
> I
> > answer 'Y' the whole command script stops.
> >
> > In rxvt, the ^C returns me to a prompt but the process being run is not
> > interrupted and continues in the background.
> >
> > What I'd really like is for the ^C to consistently abort the whole command
> > script.
> >
> > Has anyone come across this and/or is able to offer advice/solutions ?
> >
> > Duncan
>
> Duncan,
>
> You need to add "tty" to your CYGWIN environment variable. Read
> <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html> for details.
> Igor
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