The fork-to-background on Windows is just a joke (as the comment
in config.h.mingw says). Is anybody using it? It could be a useful feature
if we attach to the console of calling process (the shell in most cases)
at startup. Then when ^Break is pressed (or '-b' specified), we free
that console
Gisle Vanem [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It could be a useful feature if we attach to the console of calling
process (the shell in most cases) at startup. Then when ^Break is
pressed (or '-b' specified), we free that console and continue
running in the background. That way we will get the shell
Hrvoje Niksic [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Making `-b' work would be great. But is it really desirable for
ctrl-break to put Wget in background? I thought ctrl-break was
supposed to interrupt and abort the program, like ^C on Unix? Hmm,
now I see that ctrl-break backgrounds Wget even now, so I
