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Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 23:52:57 -0400
From: Jason Tishler <Jason DOT Tishler AT dothill DOT com>
To: Fred Yankowski <fred AT ontosys DOT com>
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: SIGTERM does not stop backend postgres processes immediately
Message-ID: <20010509235257.C1928@dothill.com>
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In-Reply-To: <20010509180819.A10384@enteract.com>; from fred@ontosys.com on Wed, May 09, 2001 at 06:08:19PM -0500
Organization: Dot Hill Systems Corp.

Fred,

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 06:08:19PM -0500, Fred Yankowski wrote:
> On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 04:48:28PM -0500, Parker, Ron wrote:
> > Under windows two things will interrupt a blocking recv() call.  The first
> > is to call closesocket() from another thread.
> 
> Cygwin doesn't seem to export a wrapper for closesocket().  How can I
> access that function?

Try direct access by including winsock.h and linking with libwsock32.a.

> Can I call it from a signal handler function?

I don't see why not, but will you know what sockets need to be closed
in the context of a signal handler?

Jason

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