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From: Andrew DeFaria <ADeFaria AT Salira DOT com>
Subject: Re: How to diagnose Cygwin / Windows shutdown problem
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:19:36 -0700
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Randall R Schulz wrote:

> Andrew,
>
> Cygwin apps don't have a Windows event handler do they? 

To tell you the truth... I don't know for sure.

> The two programming models (Win32 and POSIX) are fundamentally 
> different, so based on my very limited understanding, it seems that 
> Cygwin itself (code in Cygwin1.dll) would have to intercept these 
> OS-generated events and translate them into POSIX signals (SIGUP, say). 

Makes sense to me! I would suspect that when one clicks on the close 
button in the window frame that generates a Windows event that is 
translated somehow to send a kill signal to the shell. If true then 
there is already a mechanism for Win Event -> POSIX signal.

>
>
> Randall Schulz
>
>
> At 17:16 2003-07-23, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>
>> Randall R Schulz wrote:
>>
>>> Cygwin apps don't know about and cannot respond to the 
>>> system-generated messages that request that applications quit in 
>>> preparation for the system to shut down or the user to log off.
>>
>>
>> "Cannot respond to"? When a system-generated message that requests 
>> that applications quit in preparation for the systme to shut down or 
>> the user to log off why can Cygwin apps (in particular bash or other 
>> shell) simply do what it would have done if TMOUT was just triggered?
>>
>>       TMOUT  If set to a value greater than zero, TMOUT  is  treated  
>> as  the
>>              default timeout for the read builtin.  The select 
>> command termi-
>>              nates if input does not arrive after TMOUT seconds when 
>> input is
>>              coming  from  a terminal.  In an interactive shell, the 
>> value is
>>              interpreted as the number of seconds to  wait  for  
>> input  after
>>              issuing  the  primary prompt.  Bash terminates after 
>> waiting for
>>              that number of seconds if input does not arrive.
>
>
>



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