Mail Archives: cygwin/1997/09/26/09:18:30
In article <01BCCA67 DOT FB0348F0 AT gater DOT krystalbank DOT msk DOT ru>,
Sergey Okhapkin <sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru> wrote:
>Trevor Yann wrote:
>> The current signal handling code processes signals in the user's thread.
>> If signals were processed in a separate thread I don't think that
>> Windows95 would have a problem:
>>
>> 1. suspend user thread (don't care whether or not it is doing
>> system stuff)
>> 2. invoke signal handling
>> 3. resume user thread
>>
>> Unfortunately there is software that assumes that signals are processed
>> in the user's context - functions like longjmp will only work if signals
>> are processed in the user's thread.
>
>It's the cause of executing signal handler in main thread. Hopefully Chris
>Faylor solved most of Win95-specific problems. His patch is now in
>testing/fixing stage.
Actually, right now, it's in the testing/scratching-head-perplexedly phase.
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