Subject: RE: Ctrl-C crashes bash
From: [email-masked] ("Valery Fine")

10 Mar 1997 03:28:01 -0800
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On  9 Mar 97 at 12:49, Sergey Okhapkin wrote:

> Samuel Tardieu wrote:
> > 
> > Bob> a. Does anybody else have the problem that using control-C to
> > Bob> terminate a running program crashes bash?
> > 
> > This problem occured for me under Win95 but doesn't seem to show
> > up under WinNT.
> > 
> 
> On Windows NT 4.0 too...
> 

  It was posted several times to this list but so far no reply seen.
                                                      
  The problem is (according Microsoft):

" ....
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. 
                      ================================ !!!!
  .... "

  The worst thing is (by Microsoft again):

" TerminateThread is a dangerous function that should only be used in 
the most extreme cases".

  One workaround for this is present with "Microsoft System 
Journal", March, 96. (See source code on Web http://www.msj.com)

          Valery

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