X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:47:36 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [PPL-devel] Cygwin 1.7: signal handler not invoked (regression from 1.5) Message-ID: <20081011194735.GB15457@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <48EA6051.5060803@cs.unipr.it> <20081007023952.GA14206@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <48F06F69.9050103@cs.unipr.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48F06F69.9050103@cs.unipr.it> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) 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 Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 11:18:33AM +0200, Roberto Bagnara wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 09:00:33PM +0200, Roberto Bagnara wrote: >>> the following shows a problem in Cygwin 1.7 that is not present in >>> Cygwin 1.5: >>> >>> [snip] >>> >>> As you see, the alarm() function is not invoked as it should (and as it >>> is in Cygwin 1.5). >> It was invoked ony by coincidence in 1.5. It should be fixed in >> the next snapshot. >> Thanks for the test case. > > Dear Christopher, > > Abramo Bagnara and myself have independently downloaded > http://cygwin.com/snapshots/cygwin-inst-20081007.tar.bz2, unpacked it > over the root directory of two separate cygwin-1.7 installations, > recompiled the testcase, launched it, and alarm() is still not called. > > Perhaps http://cygwin.com/snapshots/cygwin-inst-20081007.tar.bz2 > is not what you meant by "the next snapshot"? I was not being mysterious. This works fine for me on two different systems, one running XP, one running Vista. You need to provide more details, a la: http://cygwin.com/problems.html . cgf -- 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/