Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: RE: Ctrl-Z fails to suspend Windows programs From: John Cooper Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:05:10 +0100 Message-ID: <87isdsc3xl.fsf@eu.citrix.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-imss-version: 2.5 X-imss-result: Passed X-imss-scores: Clean:99.90000 C:22 M:1 S:5 R:5 X-imss-settings: Baseline:4 C:4 M:4 S:4 R:1 (1.0000 4.0000) X-IsSubscribed: yes The old native (non-cygwin) port of zsh would somehow detect if it was about to exec a Windows app, and run it as a background process, thus returning a zsh prompt immediately. Could something like this be added to cygwin bash/zsh? This was very useful. With the cygwin zsh, I often find myself invoking a Windows app and not being able to get back to the shell window without first terminating the Windows app. --- John -----Original Message----- From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Sent: 15 June 2004 14:13 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Ctrl-Z fails to suspend Windows programs 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 AT sourceware DOT org Cygwin Co-Project Leader aaaspam AT duffek DOT 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/ -- 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/