Is there ctrl-c command in cygwin

cygwin;kill

I have a process running in cygwin and using a port. When I kill the process in another cygwin window by issuing command:

kill -9 PID   or  /bin/kill -f PID

I can see the process got terminated. However, the port is not released. Usually I can terminate the process cleanly by using ctrl-c. Is there a kill command that can have the same effect as ctrl-c in cygwin? Thanks!

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kill -9 should only be used as a last resort. If kill -SIGNINT PID isn't doing what you want, try kill -SIGTERM PID. These signals can be trapped by the application and it can do what it wants with them including performing cleanup or ignoring them.

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