From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 431 invoked by alias); 30 Jun 2006 16:20:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 388 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Jun 2006 16:20:40 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from main.gmane.org (HELO ciao.gmane.org) (80.91.229.2) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:20:37 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FwLjA-0002Ed-JY for cygwin-talk@cygwin.com; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 18:20:20 +0200 Received: from 65.207.213.226 ([65.207.213.226]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 18:20:20 +0200 Received: from mwoehlke by 65.207.213.226 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 18:20:20 +0200 To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com From: mwoehlke Subject: Re: noninterrupting signals? Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:20:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <53495.38.112.225.178.1151613207.squirrel@38.112.225.178> <20060629234140.GC2154@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060516) In-Reply-To: <20060629234140.GC2154@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List X-SW-Source: 2006-q2/txt/msg00483.txt.bz2 Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 05:50:15PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote: >> Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: >>> I'm having this vague memory of there being differences between signals in >>> whether SA_RESTART is the default. >>> >>> Can anyone provide any details or help stir up my memory a bit? >> I can stir up your memory. Just let me find my hippo... >> (IOW, try posting on the correct list. Hint: this is not the correct list.) > > Since SA_RESTART is not a cygwin-specific thing, I think that makes it a > question which is only vaguely related to cygwin, so this would make it > appropriate. > > Since Yitzchak has been around for a while and undoubtedly understands > this type of thing, I assumed that was his intent. Ah, ok... but this is still, usually, the list of... um... anything related to hippos. Anyway, I must apologize that I don't know anything about SA_RESTART'ing hippos... but (if I am even understanding this correctly) I thought the usual action on signals was to abort? Not that I know with any reasonable certainty what I am talking about. -- Matthew Do not SA_RESTART hippos. Doing so may void your warranty.