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Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 08:26:47 +0300
From: Jani tiainen <redetin AT luukku DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Ctrl-Z fails to suspend Windows programs
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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

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Jani Tiainen

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