Preventing MSYS 'bash' from killing processes that trap ^C

Question

I have a console-mode Windows application (ported from Unix) that was originally designed to do a clean exit when it received ^C (Unix SIGINT). A clean

Answer 1

Arg - 5 minute edit on comment. Here's what I wanted to write:

As a workaround, instead of trying to trap the CTRL-C event which is also being propagated to the shell I'd propose turning off the ENABLED_PROCESSED_INPUT on stdin so that CTRL-C is reported as a keyboard input instead of as a signal:

DWORD mode;
HANDLE hstdin = GetStdHandle(STD_INPUT_HANDLE);
GetConsoleMode(hstdin, &mode);
SetConsoleMode(hstdin, mode & ~ENABLE_PROCESSED_INPUT); /* disable CTRL-C processing as a signal */

You could then process keyboard input in your main thread while the rest of the program does its thing in a separate thread and set an event to cleanup when CTRL-C is received.