From:	cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Subject:	Re: Good news (sorta) on the Win 95 freeze problem
14 May 1998 08:25:54 -0700 :
Message-ID:	<199805141456.KAA01407.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@kramden.cygnus.com>
To:	cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com, noer AT cygnus DOT com

Could you send me an strace displaying this?  It doesn't sound like the
same problem to me.

It is certainly a Windows 95 problem too, if we are getting a blue screen
of death, but I guess that doesn't really matter.

cgf

>From: Geoffrey Noer <noer AT cygnus DOT com>
>Subject: Good news (sorta) on the Win 95 freeze problem
>
>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???

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