Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <40CEED71.7020407@luukku.com> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:37:05 +0300 From: Jani tiainen User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7a (Windows/20040612) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Ctrl-Z fails to suspend Windows programs References: <87n035b3kn.fsf@eu.citrix.com> <20040615120142.GA30776@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> In-Reply-To: <20040615120142.GA30776@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 could be done in such a way that it could be possible, but it would need propably need native windows stuff in shell(s) in question. -- Jani Tiainen -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/