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avadekar AT certicom DOT com wrote:
> My WIN32 app is compiled under vc7 and uses signal() to trap SIGINT, SIGABRT
> and SIGTERM.  If I run the application under console2 or a native terminal,
> pressing ^C triggers the handler and the application stops programmatically
> due to a state change made by the handler.
> 
> When I do the same under rxvt (not the X based one) or minTTY, the ^C stops
> the process without the signal handler executing.  Similarly, even when run
> from the native console, kill (-INT, -ABRT, -TERM) causes the application to
> end without the handler catching the signal.
> 
> So I wonder if the native console passes the character to the process directly
> whereas the minTTY/rxvt shells interpret it and send a signal that the native
> app doesn't really understand properly.

MinTTY and rxvt do not interpret the ^C keypress in any special way. 
They simply write a ^C (0x03) character to the child process' pty. The 
pty driver may translate that into a signal depending on the pty's line 
settings (as shown by stty). Sorry I don't know how ^C is processed in a 
Windows console or why the behaviour would be different with ptys.

Andy


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