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 Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 09:13:11 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Ctrl-Z fails to suspend Windows programs Message-ID: <20040615131311.GB30776@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <87n035b3kn.fsf@eu.citrix.com> <20040615120142.GA30776@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <40CEED71.7020407@luukku.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40CEED71.7020407@luukku.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 03:37:05PM +0300, Jani tiainen wrote: >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 is true for any part that Windows programs do not understand cygwin signals. There is no way to reliably suspend a Windows programs. -- Christopher Faylor spammer? -> aaaspam@sourceware.org Cygwin Co-Project Leader aaaspam@duffek.com TimeSys, Inc. -- 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/