Signal handling in Win32 GUI programs
Andy Koppe
andy.koppe@gmail.com
Sun Jan 11 18:08:00 GMT 2009
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> I don't know if this is what you are seeing but If you are blocked in a
> Windows function like WaitMessage or WaitForSingleObject, the signal
> will not be delivered until some random time after you leave the
> function.
Alright, that's what it is then.
> One way around this is to start a thread and wait for signals in that
> thread.
I've added a thread doing 'for (;;) pause();', but unfortunately that
doesn't seem to do the trick. Do I need to go into Cygwin internals and
wait directly on the Win32 event(s) used for signals?
Andy
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