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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 21:48:18 +0400
From: egor duda <deo AT logos-m DOT ru>
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To: "Tim Baker" <dbaker AT direct DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: cygwin apps in pipe ignore ctrl+c
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Hi!

Wednesday, 18 April, 2001 Tim Baker dbaker AT direct DOT ca wrote:

TB> I have a console app MyApp which runs in a pipe. MyApp calls
TB> CreateProcess() to launch OtherApp and later calls
TB> GenerateConsoleCtrlEvent() to send Ctrl+C to OtherApp. When
TB> OtherApp is non-Cygwin it is interrupted cleanly just as though
TB> the user had typed Ctrl+C from in the DOS window. But when
TB> OtherApp is a Cygwin application it ignores any number of
TB> CTRL_C_EVENTs I send and continues running. So a Cygwin
TB> app must be calling SetConsoleCtrlHandler() to intercept the
TB> CTRL_C_EVENT but for some reason it is not behaving properly
TB> when the Cygwin app is *running in a pipe*. (The Cygwin app IS
TB> attached to a Win32 console window which is required for
TB> GenterateConsoleCtrlEvent() to work.)

use kill() function to interrupt cygwin application. this is a normal
unix way to do such things.

Egor.            mailto:deo AT logos-m DOT ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19



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