Ctrl C

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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.

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