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Piotr Wyderski wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
>> The closest API to it would be a call to
>> cygwin_internal(CW_GETTHREADNAME, <windows-thread-id>);
> 
> Now it works like a charm. The internal thread
> which suspension leads to program hangup
> is named "sig".

  This is the signal-listener thread that all cygwin processes start, to
handle signals for them while they may be busy in blocking win32 calls.

  Is there a POSIX way of doing what you want?

    cheers,
      DaveK


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