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: <40D3CE97.9020903@luukku.com> Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 08:26:47 +0300 From: Jani tiainen User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7 (Windows/20040616) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cygwin-L Subject: Re: Ctrl-Z fails to suspend Windows programs References: <87ekogc0uq.fsf@eu.citrix.com> <87vfhptdqu.fsf@eu.citrix.com> <40D2EDB6.4000307@etr-usa.com> In-Reply-To: <40D2EDB6.4000307@etr-usa.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Warren Young wrote: > John Cooper wrote: > >> >> The problem is that I often don't want to have to terminate the GUI >> app just to >> get my shell prompt back. > > > Well now, that's an entirely different deal. > > Somehow, cmd.exe detects that a program is GUI-only, and it gives you > your prompt back when the program has launched. I suspect it would be > better to find out how cmd.exe manages that trick than to put Ctrl-Z > support into Cygwin that will likely break some non-Cygwin programs. > > One way to do this would be for Cygwin's exec() to look at the PE header > for the program and see if it has the console mode flag set. If not, it > could do whatever the Cygwin 'run' program does to spin the program off, > detached from the shell. That would be totally inconsistent how shells work. IMO, adding ampresand at end of command works as intended and is consistent how things work in *nixes -- 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/