Re: icecast-1.3.11 port to cygwin

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 09:43:45AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>> - inability to catch signal ... i have no idea where to start finding
>> the source of problem for this. can you give me a hint?
>
>Well to start with grab the Cygwin source
>(http://www.cygwin.com/contrib.html) and build yourself a debug .dll.
>(You'll need that :} ).
>
>Chris Faylor just wrote a "how-signals-works.txt" file, which you will
>find in the source tarballs. Read that. Then start test cases I guess.

One thing that I should mention is that signals only work with cygwin
functions.  You can't do a "ReadFile" or a "Sleep" and expect the call
to be interrupted by a signal.

So, if icecast is mixing Windows functions and UNIX signals this will
be a problem.

cgf

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