Mail Archives: cygwin/1998/04/16/14:34:41
Bob McGowan wrote:
>
> I am a bit confused by the second paragraph. In the usual DOS
> command.com and, I thought, in the cmd.exe of WinNT, a ^C is simply an
> interrupt. Unlike UNIX, it cannot be changed, that I know of, by any
> simple command interface. Regardless, it is just an interrupt and
> should stop a running process. If the Cygwin stuff is supposed to
> maintain some compatability with the MS environment, then I do not see
> why it would be necessary or desireable to have new threads spawned by
> this key sequence.
>
This is a straight copy from the MSVC help on the signal() function:
--
Note SIGINT is not supported for any Win32 application including Windows
NT and Windows 95. When a CTRL+C interrupt occurs, Win32 operating
systems generate a new thread to specifically handle that interrupt.
This can cause a single-thread application such as UNIX, to become
multithreaded, resulting in unexpected behavior.
--
I know it doesn't make too much sense, but nonetheless, there it is....
> As an additional note, I am running WinNT 4.0 workstation with service
> pack 3 and have used ^C to stop processes, many times at least once, and
> a few times with multiple times, and have never had a hang or other
> problem.
>
> Bob McGowan
> i'm bobmcgow at xstor dot com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 1998 11:29 AM
> To: Caspian Foxworth
> Cc: gw32
> Subject: Re: BASH under B19
>
> To have tty support for the cygwin bash you need to add to the list of
> values for the CYGWIN32 environment variable "TTY" before you start
> bash. This may cause problems for some non-cygwin programs.
>
> The other problem is that ^C begins a new thread and the cygwinb19.dll
> is NOT thread safe. So, you hit ^C once and you've got one unsafe
> thread, hit again then you've got another and so on.
>
> - \\||//
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