Signals

[Dave Korn]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 01:35:52PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 11:25:27AM -0700, John Buttitto wrote:
>>> I wrote some simeple test code in Java to trap signals. Seems to work
>>> well, I then ported it to cygwin. The code listens for the SIGINT and
>>> prints a message. When I hit Ctrl-C while it is running the proper
>>> signal gets sent and traped. 
>>> 
>>> I then go to a second shell/Window  and do a ps on the process running
>>> and try to send a kill -s SIGINT <pid>. In cygwin this does not work the
>>> process dies with out traping the signal.
>>> 
>>> Was wondering if anyone else ran into this and what silly thing I am
>>> doing that causes the issue? 
>>> 
>>> Thanks!
>> 
>> There was a problem with the setup.ini file on sourceware.org.  It should
>> be fixed now but it will take a while to propagate.
> 
> Sorry.  Somehow I responded to the wrong message.  How embarrassing.
> 
> cgf


  Heh, I thought you were just emphasising your point about how it's a bad
idea to hijack arbitrary threads for posting!


    cheers,
      DaveK
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