X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:content-type:in-reply-to:from:date:to :mime-version:message-id:subject:content-transfer-encoding; q= dns; s=default; b=hZh4AipOUU1/VavY9BR4rYpn91Icuz6HFeD3OZhQe1glW5 uZsGeVsNXEo+D/Iw6URLSBEsdC4Z/PlqCzkJsCF5siDPHdm4mVgkQP8CXY2dwyvK y50yNOWTocVDtpR2e16Z00T4jkXvYEr+eWOpky0juhN143gWg9yZ68buDZKeE= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:content-type:in-reply-to:from:date:to :mime-version:message-id:subject:content-transfer-encoding; s= default; bh=SXCnR/DtOsZfyxZfX7uk/yTci7w=; b=H2vwogt4Ik0B4+0mRspJ tM2mxfm0deUHkA01K3okw3n6FdXSX+mMuwrJxU4oN4Z9l8I+ZhvrIM5atpO/VE00 zpRETpFasgEluNkKiDrhoTPkwyfIZCFf4R36Xq6u7pBoqvi3QpzCv1bBdSRIxhT4 laPsK4mXxQKQ6jnwKu49wvs= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS,UNSUBSCRIBE_BODY autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=Dark, imagination, philmann, blog.pdark.de X-HELO: mail.hepe.com content-type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" in-reply-to: <20160419081124.GD26794@calimero.vinschen.de> from: "Aaron Digulla" X-Forward: 46.140.173.26 date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 16:28:15 +0200 to: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 message-id: <7176-57164080-3-19572f40@173738223> subject: =?utf-8?q?Re=3A?= ctrl-c doesn't reliably kill applications User-Agent: SOGoMail 2.3.10 X-IsSubscribed: yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id u3JESe4g004629 Am Dienstag, 19. April 2016 10:11 CEST, Corinna Vinschen schrieb: > On Apr 18 23:38, Aaron Digulla wrote: > > On 17.03.2016 21:04, Björn Stabel wrote: > > > I couldn't replicate it either, but the question I started this thread > > > with is unrelated to either of the ping tools. > > > Here it is again: > > > > > > The ctrl-c shortcut doesn't reliably kill applications (anymore?). > > > It has been that way for at least a year now. > > > > I can confirm that. It's worse with native applications. In my case, I > > have scripts which invoke Maven (a Java application). > > > > Ctrl+C kills the script but the signal isn't forwarded to the Windows > > process, so the Java process is stuck in the background. > > > > To make matters worse, it tries to write to stdout which isn't properly > > connected anymore. This can lead to Windows starting to trash the > > harddrive until you have to turn off the computer. > > > > Might be related to Ctrl+S/Ctrl+W handling as well (Unix kind of Scroll > > Lock) which is also broken for native programs (you can freeze them but > > Ctrl+W has no effect anymore until Windows freezes). > > Shouldn't that be Ctrl-Q? I had that feeling while typing the mail ... yes, of course. The key sequence is hardcoded in my fingers, so my brain mostly forgot about which keys have to be pressed :-) The issue is the same, though. Ctrl+S makes Windows crash if a native process is currently trying to write to the mintty console. Regards, -- Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla a.k.a. Philmann Dark "It's not the universe that's limited, it's our imagination. Follow me and I'll show you something beyond the limits." http://blog.pdark.de/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple