[Wine] How to avoid control-c killing the open program?

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Thu Jul 23 10:50:15 CDT 2009


On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 8:35 AM, phhs80<wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>
> Martin Gregorie wrote:
>> On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 07:38 -0500, phhs80 wrote:
>>
>> > Dear All,
>> >
>> > When I am running a program under Wine and I press Control-C, the
>> > running program is killed. However, this behavior is not always the
>> > desired one.
>> >
>> >
>> A Linux/UNIX program can catch Control-C and take any action it likes,
>> but it must be written to do that. The default action is to terminate
>> the process.
>>
>> What does your program do when its run under Windows and you type
>> Control-C?
>>
>>
>> Martin
>
>
> Thanks to both answers.
>
> On Windows, when I press Control-C the calculations of the program are interrupted, but the program is not killed. That is, the key sequence to interrupt calculations is Control-C. I am talking about a program that runs in a console.

It should work fine for a gui app. For console apps, it cancels the
console process. I'm not sure if there's a workaround or not. File a
bug (search for an open one first).

-- 
-Austin



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