This means that the example using Ruby probably works because Ruby itself (by design) catches the interrupt before spawning a sub-process?

Hm. The first thing is that Windows doesn't do signals. perl.exe simulates POSIX-style signal handling to some extent.

^C generates a "Console Event". How this is processed by related processes depends in large part by whether the processes share a console or not; and b) whether they are formally related into a process group or not.

For more of the gory details see the discussion about CREATE_NEW_PROCESS_GROUP in the Process Creation Flags passed to the CreateProcess() function. See also the related discussion for GenerateConsoleCtrlEvent Function.

There are several ways that Ruby might achieve it's behaviour. Without reading the source it isn't possible to know which is used.

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In reply to Re^3: Interaction of Windows Batch files and Perl's system() function by BrowserUk
in thread Interaction of Windows Batch files and Perl's system() function by rovf

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