On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 01:45:52PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>Lee Moore, le Mon 23 Jan 2006 12:05:17 +0000, a ?crit :
>> I have an application which is creating generated code blocks in memory
>> provided by mmap, once the application is running in the generated code
>> blocks, it cannot be interrupted by a SIGALRM.
>
>Mmm, IIRC signals can't be delivered unless you call cygwin functions.
If that is actually true, it's a bug. Cygwin should be able to
interrupt user code. It doesn't try to interrupt...
>Another problem can this this too:
>int main(void) {
> signal(SIGALRM,handler);
> alarm(1);
> Sleep();
>}
...a Windows function like Sleep. It should interrupt, e.g., a busy
loop in user code, however.
cgf
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