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Subject: Re: Cygwin >= 1.7.7 Installing a signal handler causes system calls in other threads to get interrupted.
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On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:52:09PM +0100, Manuel Wienand wrote:
>Hi,
>
>any suggestions? Can anyone confirm the problem (at least for me the behavior is unexpected...)?

Cygwin's handling of signals with threads is not currently compliant
with POSIX.  It's on my todo list to fix but I don't have an ETA.

cgf

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