X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:16:09 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: rxvt: Ctrl+C leaves child process of native processes Message-ID: <20061028041609.GA17972@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 05:40:36PM -0700, Hari Krishna Dara wrote: >When I hit ^C in an rxvt window (no X), it doesn't result in killing >all the child processes. > >In this specific case, I am running ant, either through ant.bat, ant >(shell script) or through a custom perl wrapper (which directly >executes java bypassing ant.bat or ant). > >When the perl wrapper is used it is started from another batch file, >so here is how the process execution: >- batch starts a perl command >- perl command starts java (ant) >- ant starts another java process > >The process tree as shown by sysinternals' process explorer is: > >bash > cmd > perl > java > java > >When I hit ^C, bash and cmd exit immediately leaving perl and the two >java processes. Cygwin has no way of knowing what the children of non-cygwin subprocesses are. So, as you've found, if you don't use a Cygwin program, you won't get linux-like signal results. This shouldn't be *too* surprising. cgf -- 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/