From: Andy Koppe <andy.koppe@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Signal handling in Win32 GUI programs
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:08:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <496A24DE.1080101@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090111163729.GB9992@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-11 16:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-11 16:38 Andy Koppe
2009-01-11 16:57 ` Christopher Faylor
2009-01-11 18:08 ` Andy Koppe [this message]
2009-01-11 20:41 ` Christopher Faylor
2009-01-11 21:28 ` Andy Koppe
2009-01-12 4:02 ` Christopher Faylor
2009-01-13 7:49 ` Andy Koppe
2009-01-13 9:27 ` Chris January
2009-01-13 13:31 ` Andy Koppe
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