X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,SPF_NEUTRAL,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4CB9DE15.8010308@cornell.edu> Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 13:17:09 -0400 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin Subject: Sending signals to a subprocess Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com I could use some help fixing a longstanding bug in the Cygwin build of emacs, in which emacs is unable to send signals to subprocesses. A symptom from the user's point of view is that one cannot interrupt a process in shell mode by typing C-c C-c. I've found a workaround that handles that case (SIGINT), as well as SIGQUIT and SIGTSTP. But as long as I'm fixing this, I'd like to do it right and figure out how to handle all signals. This boils down to finding the right process group ID to pass to 'kill'. On systems that have TIOCGPGRP, emacs uses the following code (in src/process.c) to get this ID: /* Return the foreground process group for the tty/pty that the process P uses. */ static int emacs_get_tty_pgrp (p) struct Lisp_Process *p; { int gid = -1; #ifdef TIOCGPGRP if (ioctl (p->infd, TIOCGPGRP, &gid) == -1 && ! NILP (p->tty_name)) { int fd; /* Some OS:es (Solaris 8/9) does not allow TIOCGPGRP from the master side. Try the slave side. */ fd = emacs_open (SDATA (p->tty_name), O_RDONLY, 0); if (fd != -1) { ioctl (fd, TIOCGPGRP, &gid); emacs_close (fd); } } #endif /* defined (TIOCGPGRP ) */ return gid; } What's the right way to do this in Cygwin? Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple