Win32/MinGW port
Pavel Tsekov
ptsekov at gmx.net
Fri Aug 16 11:03:10 UTC 2002
Hello, Pavel!
>> Current version is randomly freezing (not responding
>> to keyboard). That looked harder to debug than native build :)
PR> This patch fixes it. Yes, it was hard to debug (2 hours).
Cool! :)
[snip]
PR> Somebody is blocking SIGCHLD, so even old_mask has SIGCHLD blocked,
PR> therefore the subsequent sigsuspend() call hangs forever. I'm not sure if
PR> it's going to be the final fix (I'm not applying it yet), but it should be
PR> a reasonably good workaround for Cygwin users for now.
It is interesting that this behaviour appears randomly - you can work
for 10 minutes and then get the hang, or you can get it at the very
beggining.
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