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From: "James Abley" <james DOT abley AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: lost SIGTERM signal handler and winpcap....
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On 28/03/2008, S A <sagarwal10 AT hotmail DOT com> wrote:
>
>  Here's the really strange part:
>
>  if I do an strace on my application, then my signal handler
>  gets invoked correctly!! Can't explain this.

c.f. Heisenbug [1]. It's common enough, but very annoying. Gives you
another avenue to explore though. What does strace do to the
environment that causes the problem to disappear?

Sorry I can't help with your main problem though.

James

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenbug#Heisenbugs

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