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Re: [PATCH] Allow sending SIGINT to child processes on Windows *if*they are running Perl

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From:
Steve Hay
Date:
April 19, 2007 05:18
Subject:
Re: [PATCH] Allow sending SIGINT to child processes on Windows *if*they are running Perl
Message ID:
46275DFB.2050401@uk.radan.com
Jan Dubois wrote:
> In Perl 5.6 it was possible to send SIGINT to child processes on
> Windows. One problem was that the signal would be delivered to *all*
> child processes in the same process group.
[...]
> The attached patch re-enables sending SIGINT to console child processes
> if the child is running Perl and the system is Windows NT or later. This
> doesn't sound that useful, but it is the best I could come up with.

Thanks, applied as #30979.

Looks pretty useful to me: it's certainly a common case that I've come 
across a few times.

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