Re: Signal handling in Win32 GUI programs

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 04:57:02PM +0000, Andy Koppe wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> I don't know if this is what you are seeing but If you are blocked in a
>> Windows function like WaitMessage or WaitForSingleObject, the signal
>> will not be delivered until some random time after you leave the
>> function.
>
> Alright, that's what it is then.
>
>> One way around this is to start a thread and wait for signals in that
>> thread.
>
> I've added a thread doing 'for (;;) pause();', but unfortunately that 
> doesn't seem to do the trick. Do I need to go into Cygwin internals and 
> wait directly on the Win32 event(s) used for signals?

sigwait() will probably work better than pause.

cgf

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