Subject: Re: Cygwin32 Signals
From: [email-masked] (Chris Faylor)

26 Sep 1997 09:18:30 -0700
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In article <[email-masked]>,
Sergey Okhapkin  <[email-masked]> wrote:
>Trevor Yann wrote:
>> The current signal handling code processes signals in the user's thread.
>> If signals were processed in a separate thread I don't think that
>> Windows95 would have a problem:
>>
>> 1.	suspend user thread (don't care whether or not it is doing
>> 	system stuff)
>> 2.	invoke signal handling
>> 3.	resume user thread
>>
>> Unfortunately there is software that assumes that signals are processed
>> in the user's context - functions like longjmp will only work if signals
>> are processed in the user's thread.
>
>It's the cause of executing signal handler in main thread. Hopefully Chris 
>Faylor solved most of Win95-specific problems. His patch is now in 
>testing/fixing stage.

Actually, right now, it's in the testing/scratching-head-perplexedly phase.
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