From:	cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher G. Faylor)
Subject:	Re: SIGINT pending no matter what!
25 Jun 1998 15:08:00 GMT :
Message-ID:	<6mtp4g$8ss$1@cronkite.cygnus.com>
References:	<TFSLFBTO DOT cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT armature DOT com>
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In article <TFSLFBTO DOT cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT armature DOT com>,
Robin Crampton <rcrampton AT armature DOT com> wrote:
>The program below produces the following output:
>
> $ ./a
> Interrupt!
> Done.
> $
>
>pending_signals is set to 4 (reading the sigismember() sources and   
>sys/signal.h, this is SIGINT) whether I touch the keyboard or not.

It's a bug in sigpending () which I introduced a while ago.  The fix is
very simple but unfortunately there is no workaround -- you have to
rebuild cygwin32.  The change will be in the next release of Cygwin32.
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