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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 15:32:55 +0100
From: Alex Dupre <sysadmin AT alexdupre DOT com>
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Hello,
I have a question about signal handling and JNI under cygwin.

The scenario is the following:
- a cygwin program register a function to handle SIGINT and SIGTERM signals
- the program then launches the Java Virtual Machine via the JNI 
invocation API, telling it to not override any signal handlers

Hitting a CTRL-C should then immediately run the defined signal handler, 
but this is not the case. For some reason (what exactly?) inside the 
java program I need to periodically call a native function linked with 
cygwin, but this is not enough. In the called function I have to do 
something more, like printing a char to stdout or /dev/null (calling 
printf("") with an empty string doesn't work). Only in this way the 
signal handler is called as soon as I hit CTRL-C, otherwise it's ignored 
or handled seconds/minutes later.
Maybe the callback to C code is mandatory under cygwin, but why should I 
print something to have to signal handled? Any suggestions?

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Alex Dupre

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