On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 10:42:39AM -0400, Bob Rossi wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 10:13:20AM -0400, Bob Rossi wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 08:37:53PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 08:07:23PM -0400, Bob Rossi wrote:
> > > >I'm not exactly sure what has changed since the last release to cause
> > > >this issue. However, here it is.
> > > >
> > > >When ctrl-z is typed, CGDB receives a SIGTSTP on both linux and cygwin.
> > > >When CGDB is at the select loop and this happens on linux select returns
> > > >-1 and errno is set to EINTR. My code simple does a 'continue' when this
> > > >happens and the select loop is reentered. All works well. On cygwin,
> > > >select does not return with -1. (I didn't check the return value but I
> > > >can, I just compare to -1 in an if statement). In fact, select also
> > > >detects that input is ready on stdin. This causes CGDB to get to a read
> > > >system call (which is non blocking) and the read system call fails with
> > > >errno set to EAGAIN. This causes CGDB to exit.
> > > >
> > > >The main loop looks something like this,
> > > > if (select (max + 1, &rset, NULL, NULL, NULL) == -1)
> > > > {
> > > > if (errno == EINTR)
> > > > continue;
> > > > ..
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > > if (FD_ISSET (STDIN_FILENO, &rset)) {
> > > > handle_stdin
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > >So, my question is, is there a bug with select on cygwin? Is select
> > > >working properly and I should handle the read call differently? Why does
> > > >it act differently than linux?
> > >
> > > You say that something changed between different releases but you don't
> > > mention what those releases are. Is this releases of Cygwin? If so,
> > > what releases?
> > >
> > > If this is as easy to demonstrate as you say, then a simple test case
> > > is definitely called for.
> >
> > Hi Christopher,
> >
> > Attached is the test case. If I run it under linux, and then type ctrl-z, I
> > never get into the user_input_loop call. If I run it in cygwin, I do.
> >
> > Hopefully I'm doing something wrong here. Please advise!
>
> Ouch. Attached.
Any idea if this is a bug in cygwin?
I'm considering if I should rework my code to handle this case...
Thanks,
Bob Rossi
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