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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Re: Ctrl-C issues with 1.5.20-1
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On Jul  5 17:41, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul  5 07:50, David Rothenberger wrote:
> > On 11:59 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > >On Jul  3 14:02, Auteria Wally Winzer Jr. wrote:
> > >>I noticed some very strange behavior with Ctrl-C. [...]
> > >>$ ping www.yahoo.com
> > >>PING www.yahoo.akadns.net (209.73.186.238): 56 data
> > >>bytes
> > >>Ctrl-C is not functioning...
> > >
> > >Thanks for the report.  I fixed it in CVS.  Check out the next developer
> > >snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
> > 
> > ping now seems to drop all but the first packet.
> 
> Ok, I reverted the previous patch.  For now you have to live with Ctrl-C
> being unable to interrupt a hanging ping.  I'm going to revamp the
> socket handling in the next weeks anyway and I'm not quite ready to put
> more time into this single problem.

Btw., the problem can be circumvented in ping itself, by applying
the below patch.


Corinna


--- ping-1.0-1.c.orig	2006-07-05 19:45:23.452828500 +0200
+++ ping-1.0-1.c	2006-07-05 19:37:31.535938000 +0200
@@ -347,6 +347,7 @@ char *argv[];
 	setlinebuf( stdout );
 
 	signal( SIGINT, finish );
+	siginterrupt (SIGALRM, 1);
 	signal(SIGALRM, catcher);
 
 	/* fire off them quickies */

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Project Co-Leader          cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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