On Dec 11, 2007 10:18 AM, TAJTHY Tamás wrote: > Dear List, > > sometimes I have to pause the execution of the mencoder process on my cygwin > hosted by an XP SP2. If I press Ctrl+S the mencoder is stopped nicely. I > wanted > to pause it from a script. I tried the normal UNIX way sending a SIGSTOP > signal > to the process (kill -STOP mencoder_PID) from an other bash window. Running > "ps" > I could see it had "S" status, but mencoder was still writing to stdout and > the > CPU usage was still nearly 100%. I even tried "kill -TSTP mencoder_PID", but > the > same result.
I think this is because of this longstanding cygwin issue: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2003-q4/msg00055.html Which I think may also be the reason why it usually makes my console unusable if I try to use ^Z to suspend, eg, $ yes | less (Although I haven't looked at this stuff in ages, so maybe I don't know what I'm talking about -- I'm sure CGF will pipe up if I'm completely wrong). Lev -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/