From:	noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer)
Subject:	Good news (sorta) on the Win 95 freeze problem
13 May 1998 17:19:18 -0700 :
Message-ID:	<199805140002.RAA31246.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@skaro.cygnus.com>
To:	cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com
Cc:	noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer)

Hi all,

Here's some sorta good news on the Win 95 freezing on control-C's
problem where hitting control-Cs in rapid succession will cause the
Win 95 kernel to hang and necessitate a reboot.

The sorta good news is that it is present under Windows NT as well
(it's much harder to trigger, but typing ls -l and then hitting
control-C a couple of times in quick succession will do the trick).

I like this because:

1) The bug should be much easier to track down since we don't have to
cope with the blue screen of death in NT.

2) The bug is almost certainly our fault.  It would have really
sucked if it had turned out to be a Win 95 kernel bug.

It is present in the latest development winsup sources snapshot.
Looks like it's probably a deadlock in the signal handling code???

-- 
Geoffrey Noer
noer AT cygnus DOT com

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