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On Windows, the handling of SIGINT (aka Ctrl+C for a DOS prompt) is done in a different thread than the running thread. Which means that the current runtime cannot handle it properly without failing, since it throw the exception in the wrong thread.
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Here is a thread discussing a [http://groups.google.ie/group/microsoft.public.win32.programmer.kernel/browse_frm/thread/608ad10204f76515/1e175f06dca6106f?hl=en#1e175f06dca6106f possible solution] from the Microsoft newsgroups.

Revision as of 15:47, 6 June 2007


On Windows, the handling of SIGINT (aka Ctrl+C for a DOS prompt) is done in a different thread than the running thread. Which means that the current runtime cannot handle it properly without failing, since it throw the exception in the wrong thread.

Here is a thread discussing a possible solution from the Microsoft newsgroups.