* Putting a running job into the background with cygwin zsh?
@ 2004-06-11 9:44 John Cooper
2004-06-11 18:59 ` Philippe Troin
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From: John Cooper @ 2004-06-11 9:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 'zsh-users@sunsite.dk'; +Cc: John Cooper
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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?
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").
Thanks,
--- John
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* Re: Putting a running job into the background with cygwin zsh?
2004-06-11 9:44 Putting a running job into the background with cygwin zsh? John Cooper
@ 2004-06-11 18:59 ` Philippe Troin
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From: Philippe Troin @ 2004-06-11 18:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: John Cooper; +Cc: 'zsh-users@sunsite.dk'
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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