X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <23fce8e60804011311n1d33e05cqc753018a1e7bd140@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 21:11:13 +0100 From: "James Abley" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: lost SIGTERM signal handler and winpcap.... In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 28/03/2008, S A wrote: > > Here's the really strange part: > > if I do an strace on my application, then my signal handler > gets invoked correctly!! Can't explain this. c.f. Heisenbug [1]. It's common enough, but very annoying. Gives you another avenue to explore though. What does strace do to the environment that causes the problem to disappear? Sorry I can't help with your main problem though. James [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenbug#Heisenbugs -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/