From:	sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject:	RE: SIGKILL and block_sig_dispatch
22 Jun 1998 09:23:19 -0700 :
Message-ID:	<01BD9E19.D35C1440.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@sos>
To:	"'Christopher Faylor'" <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Cc:	"cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com" <cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com>

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> If you just get rid of the WSACleanup and only use the close_all_files() in
> do_exit (), does it still hang?

Yes it hang, because the main thread will switch into the new context only when blocking call will terminate.

> 
> If so, and the close_all_files has to be executed in the context of the
> signal thread, then, I think the patch below is better.  It is a minor
> change to avoid closing all of the files again.
> 

It's not neccessary (the second close_all_files() does nothing), but let it be :-)

-- 
Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia

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