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On Jan 11 09:41, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> I had previously reported "select() hanging after terminal killed"
> (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-05/msg00418.html).
> It turns out that select() does not get interrupted by a SIGWINCH
> signal either (with likely the same cause).
> This raises problems with interactive programs that want to react to
> window size changes (like text editors).
> 
> See attached updated test case; run the program, while select() is
> waiting (before 5 second timeout each), change window size and see
> no interrupt.
> On other systems, select() is interrupted (test case: from mintty,
> remote login to SunOS; also showing the terminal is not involved in
> the problem).
> 
> This bug did not exist in cygwin 1.5; I see some Changelog entries
> from 2011-12-13 or 2012-01-22 which might be related.

Just for clarity, did you test with the latest snapshot?


Corinna

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