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--On Wednesday, August 28, 2019 6:45 PM +0200 Corinna Vinschen 
<corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:

> Not likely.  Cygwin handles Ctrl-C by generating SIGINT.  This only
> works reliably with Cygwin processes.  There's
>
>   $ /bin/kill -f <PID>
>
> to call the Win32 function TerminateProcess(pid) on a non-Cygwin
> process or an unresponsive Cygwin process.

As I noted, it was not unique to control-C.  In any case, unfortunate to 
hear that Cygwin will not address this issue.  kill -f is clearly not 
desirable for doing a clean shutdown of a process.

--Quanah


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