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Re: Interrupts, bash and .cmd scripts


At 07:55 AM 8/4/2004, you wrote:

> |Following up on some of that advice, did you try googling?  I found
> |this by looking for "Control-C" and "rxvt" in 2004.
> |
> |<http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-02/msg01422.html>
> |
> |Looks relevant to me, no?
>
>No, unfortunately not. The issue is not that ^C doesn't do anything, it is 
>that it does interrupt the script, but it appears to leave what ever the 
>script ran in the background.  Doing some experimenting, I found the 
>following to demonstrate the problem:
>
>foo.sh:
>
>    #!/bin/bash
>
>    /cygwin/c/Program\ Files/mozilla.org/Mozilla/mozilla/exe
>
>foo.cmd:
>
>    "c:\Program Files\mozilla.org\Mozilla\mozilla.exe"
>
>When running foo.sh, a ^C will terminate mozilla and return the command 
>prompt.  When running foo.cmd, ^C will return the command prompt, but leave 
>mozilla running.
>
>This is easy to deal with in terms of mozilla - I can just go exit mozilla. 
>But with things like WLS, killing the java processes is a PITA.
>
>Any ideas?  Thanks....


Did you follow the whole thread?  I only pointed you to the beginning (so
you got the context) but it is the later posts that are most relevant to 
your predicament IMO.




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