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Re: Cannot suspend shell (Ctrl+Z)
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:59:26 -0500
- Subject: Re: Cannot suspend shell (Ctrl+Z)
- References: <ibu8lr$fcm$1@dough.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 04:40:35PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
>[latest Cygwin DLL and all updates]
>
>Hi,
>
>I cannot suspend applications (like Midnight Commander) in a running
>shell (bash or Zsh) - nothing happens. Nevertheless when I run mc (for
>instance) in screen session then it works as expected:
>
>% mc ~
>
>[1] + 5752 suspended mc
>%
>
>I vaguely remember that it used to be possible to suspend applications
>from a standard shell... Can anyone shed some light on this issue?
Try using mintty or rxvt. You can't suspend processes running in a console
window (like CMD) unless they are waiting for input.
cgf
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