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Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 14:25:12 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: duncan DOT loveday AT bt DOT com
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: SIGINT to bash behaves differently in rxvt as compared to console

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On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 duncan DOT loveday AT bt DOT com wrote:

> I find on a Windows NT4 (SP6) platform with the latest versions (downloaded
> today) of cygwin1.dll, rxvt, bash etc that if I run a windows command
> script, say a.cmd, which in turn runs some other process (e.g. a pause), if
> I hit ^C then the behaviour is different in rxvt as compared to the cygwin
> console.
>
> In the console, the process being run by the command script is always
> interrupted and then sometimes the rest of the command script continues to
> execute but sometimes it says 'Terminate batch job (Y/N)' in which case if I
> answer 'Y' the whole command script stops.
>
> In rxvt, the ^C returns me to a prompt but the process being run is not
> interrupted and continues in the background.
>
> What I'd really like is for the ^C to consistently abort the whole command
> script.
>
> Has anyone come across this and/or is able to offer advice/solutions ?
>
> Duncan

Duncan,

You need to add "tty" to your CYGWIN environment variable.  Read
<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html> for details.
	Igor
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