On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 04:57:02PM +0000, Andy Koppe wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: >> I don't know if this is what you are seeing but If you are blocked in a >> Windows function like WaitMessage or WaitForSingleObject, the signal >> will not be delivered until some random time after you leave the >> function. > > Alright, that's what it is then. > >> One way around this is to start a thread and wait for signals in that >> thread. > > I've added a thread doing 'for (;;) pause();', but unfortunately that > doesn't seem to do the trick. Do I need to go into Cygwin internals and > wait directly on the Win32 event(s) used for signals?
sigwait() will probably work better than pause. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
