From: Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>
To: John Cooper <john.cooper@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: "'zsh-users@sunsite.dk'" <zsh-users@sunsite.dk>
Subject: Re: Putting a running job into the background with cygwin zsh?
Date: 11 Jun 2004 11:59:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87u0xhc44v.fsf@ceramic.fifi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B5885AA769039C49BD9295955CB2E0E405897B6C@lonpexch501.ctxuk.citr ix.com>
John Cooper <john.cooper@eu.citrix.com> writes:
> I'm using the cygwin version of zsh 4.2.0 on WinXP.
>
> If I run a Windows program and later want to put it into the background,
> Ctrl-Z has no effect.
> `stty -a' indicates that the suspend character is ^Z. Does this work for
> others or is it a known limitation in the cygwin version?
Since windows does not have job control nor pseudo-terminals, I
suspect that the backgrounding behavior is part of the Cygwin runtime.
Windows programs are not linked to the Cygwin runtime.
> Interestingly, the old Windows native zsh port (by AmolD) would always
> return immediately when invoking "windowed" Windows apps, i.e., if I typed
> `notepad', the shell would exec notepad.exe and immediately provide a new
> prompt. It only did this for apps designed to run "windowed", so would work
> for "notepad", "write", etc, but not for "java" (I used "javaw", which is
> "windowed").
That's depends on which Windows runtime you link with.
Phil.
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