Win32/MinGW port
Pavel Roskin
proski at gnu.org
Fri Aug 16 21:25:11 UTC 2002
Hello, Pavel!
> 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.
>
> Indeed someone is - and it is Cygwin. It appears to be a bug in the
> signal processing. Thanks to your findings I was able to trace it
> down. Please, wait a dwo or two before checking your patch. Meanwhile
> I'll address the issue on the Cygwin list and hopefully a solution
> will be found.
Thank you, you did a great job! Please copy me your bugreport for Cygwin,
so that I know what was wrong. I think I'll apply my patch (maybe in a
slightly different form). I remember a similar problem with an old
version of QNX Neutrino (6.0.0 I think), so I'll check if it's fixed as
well.
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Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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