lost SIGTERM signal handler and winpcap....

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

James Abley wrote:
> On 28/03/2008, S A wrote:
>>  Here's the really strange part:
>>
>>  if I do an strace on my application, then my signal handler
>>  gets invoked correctly!! Can't explain this.
> 
> c.f. Heisenbug [1]. It's common enough, but very annoying. Gives you
> another avenue to explore though. What does strace do to the
> environment that causes the problem to disappear?

That's simple.  strace is a Windows app, not a Cygwin app.  So it doesn't
have the Cygwin signal semantics.

You'll probably get a better feel for the differences here if you take a
look at the Cygwin doc:

<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/highlights.html#ov-hi-signals>

Gritty details can be found in 'how-signals-work.txt' the 'cygwin'
source directory.


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