Subject: RE: signals from non-cygwin processes?
From: [email-masked] (Sergey Okhapkin)

31 Dec 1997 02:04:10 -0800
Message-ID: <[email-masked]>
To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>,
        "'Tim Newsham'"
	 <[email-masked]>

Tim Newsham wrote:
>    I would like to be able to send a cygwin process a signal
> from a non-cygwin process.  When one cygwin process wants to
> signal another it does it with a message as:
>
>     SendMessage(hwnd, WM_USER, SIGNAL, signo);
>

It would be much better to call cygwin.dll-provided kill() export. Signal 
handling in b18, in coolview and in upcoming b19 differs very much. More 
precisely, nobody knows now exactly, how signals will be handled in b19 :-)

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