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Re: PATCH: Use getche on Win32


On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 04:31:28PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 11:22:17PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> > Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 13:04:52 -0700
>> > From: Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>
>> > CC: bug-readline@gnu.org,  gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
>> > 
>> > > "DTRT" in this case means raise SIGINT when Ctrl-C is pressed and go
>> > > left one character when left-arrow is pressed.
>> > 
>> > I take it, then, that you are asking that I implement that functionality 
>> > in readline?
>> 
>> Well, since we are talking about Readline for GDB, and given the
>> importance of SIGINT in GDB, I'd say at least Ctrl-C should work as
>> expected.
>
>That's a whole different problem; there's no way to read characters
>that will cause proper SIGINT delivery, since the times when GDB cares
>about SIGINT are the times when it is not in readline.  I don't know if
>that's implementable at all (maybe Chris does?), but it won't be near
>here.
>
>Does Windows offer anything like appropriate job / pgrp semantics?
>That'd really surprise me.

Windows does support CTRL-C and does have process groups.  I don't know
how close the concept of a windows process group is to UNIX, though.

cgf


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