On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Brian Granger <ellisonbg....@gmail.com> wrote: > Gonzalo, > On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Brian Granger <ellisonbg....@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> > Gonzalo, >> > Thanks for starting this discussion. I am willing to help with this >> > effort >> > as I definitely need this capability. Part of the challenge will be >> > figuring out how to do this on Windows. >> >> Not necessarily. I think signals(2) is part of C89, and setjmp(3) / >> longjmp(3) are as well, so they should work on windows (although it's >> probably good for trapping ctrl-c and fp exceptions and not much more >> -- but what else do you need?). Note that sigsetjmp(3) / siglongmp(3) >> don't seem to be part of ansi c, though... I'm not sure atm why we use >> that --- possibly only makes sense on unix and those can be changed to >> the no-sig counterparts on windows) >> > > This is encouraging, hopefully it won't be an issue to port this to Windows.
As a data point, the current _sig_on/_sig_off code appears to 100% "just work" in Cygwin on Windows: wst...@winxp2 /home/mhansen/sage-4.3.3.alpha0 $ ./sage ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | Sage Version 4.3.4.alpha1, Release Date: 2010-03-09 | | Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ********************************************************************** * * * Warning: this is a prerelease version, and it may be unstable. * * * ********************************************************************** sage: time n=factorial(10^5) CPU times: user 0.04 s, sys: 0.03 s, total: 0.07 s Wall time: 0.20 s sage: time n=factorial(10^7) [I press control-c] KeyboardInterrupt sage: sage: -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
