Re: Win32 CTRL-C handling (Was: interrupt handing and the GUI (bug #37672))

[John W. Eaton]

On 11/21/2013 11:10 AM, Michael Goffioul wrote:

> That's a known issue I've already mentioned at least twice :).
>
> The problem is that readline uses _getch(), and that Win32 core function
> disables CTRL-C handling. When you hit CTRL-C while readline is active,
> _getch() simply returns 0x3, and readline interpret it as a normal key
> sequence. There's no handler associated with that key sequence by
> default in readline, so nothing happens.

Sorry, I know you've mentioned that before.  I meant to report what I 
was seeing.

I've looked, but I don't see how bash is reacting to Ctrl-C on Windows 
systems when it is using readline.

jwe