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RE: Cygwin32 Signals




On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Sergey Okhapkin wrote:

> Mikey wrote:
> > perhaps the following Psuedocode fragment will
> > give you some workable ideas.
> >
> 
> This may not help. Signal processing thread must suspend main thread 
> execution and switch it to signal handler routine. The only way to do it I 
> see is the current method (originally designed by Steve Chamberlain, the 
> inventor of gnu-win32 project): suspend the main thread execution, save 
> current inctruction pointer, set it to signal handler address and resume 
> main thread. Win95 may hang if context switching is while in a syscall. Why 
> did it work before? Because all the signal mechanism was almost missing in 
> cygwin.dll.

What about checking to see if you are making a call that could hang Win
and then either a.) waiting for the syscall to finish or b.) interrupt
that call?

- alex

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