[darcs-users] Re: Darcs, Cygwin/MSYS, and Ctrl-C

Simon Marlow simonmar at microsoft.com
Wed Dec 6 12:03:58 UTC 2006


Eric Y. Kow wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 11:19:33 +0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
> 
>>Last week I decided to investigate why darcs never seems to catch Ctrl-C 
>>and clean up properly on Windows; it always seems to leave a lock file 
>>behind.  It turns out that this is a deep swamp, but I think I've explored 
>>enough of it now to describe what the problem is.
> 
> 
> Wow, thanks for this.
> 
> 
>>If someone could put this on the wiki somewhere (or suggest the right place 
>>for me to put it) that would be great.
> 
> 
> I don't think it would be unreasonable for us to have a page like
> http://darcs.net/DarcsWiki/Windows
> for this kind of stuff, at least as a guide page

Ok:  http://darcs.net/DarcsWiki/WindowsConsoles

feel free to fiddle around with the text and move it elsewhere, if you like.

Cheers,
	Simon





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