On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 01:36:18PM +0100, Andreas Steenpa? wrote: >I have noticed that sigwait() does not return immediately if called in >the following situation: >* One of the signals the command is looking for isalready pending. >* This signal was send to the entire process rather than to a specific >thread. >* sigwait() is called from a thread other than the 'main' thread. > >Look at the test case below. The function test_sigwait() is first called >from the 'main' thread and then from another thread created in main(). >This should not make a difference here, but the function shows different >behaviour. > >My interpretation is that sigwait() simply forgets to look for >non-thread-specific signals which are already pending at the time when >it is called.
I don't see any difference between Cygwin and Linux when I run the test program. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
