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RE: 1.7.11: Ctrl-C does not work in bash shell (Win7)


Spackmann, Richard M. sent the following at Tuesday, April 03, 2012 2:18 PM
>When I open up a cygwin command line bash shell and I notice now that
>Ctrl-C does not exit out from the current command prompt to start a new
>one.
>
>Ctrl-C will however exit a running process.
>
>Is this to be the behavior from now on, or is a
>reoccurrence of the possible bug as reported in
>http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-03/msg00102.html.
>
>If so, when is the next cygwin bug release due out?
>
>I am running Windows 7 and just upgraded to 1.7.11 - attached is the
>output of cygcheck.

I think that it may be bash, not cygwin.  Bash does not exit with ^C,
but will with ^D.

See SIGNALS in man bash.  (A feature, not a bug.)

If you want to replace an instance of bash with a new one, think about
using the exec builtin.

- Barry
  Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.


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