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Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 12:30:30 +0400
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru>
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Greetings, Daniel Colascione!

>> [cmd /c start foo not going into the background]
>> It is not likely to change.

> What worries me isn't that the behavior changed, but that the new
> behavior is weird. SIGINT doesn't work on processes spawned by cmd /c
> start.

> Try it yourself:

> $ cmd /c start notepad

> The weird thing is that cmd seems to have a PID, but sending a signal
> to this process fails with ESRCH --- except for sending signal 0,
> which succeeds.

That's expected - non-cygwin applications don't know anything about signals.
Even if, for example, SIGKILL would work on cmd (forcefully terminating it),
Notepad will stay.


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Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru) 10.05.2012, <12:28>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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