Re: How to diagnose Cygwin / Windows shutdown problem

[Randall R Schulz <rschulz at sonic dot net>]

Andrew,

Cygwin apps don't have a Windows event handler do they? The two 
programming models (Win32 and POSIX) are fundamentally different, so 
based on my very limited understanding, it seems that Cygwin itself 
(code in Cygwin1.dll) would have to intercept these OS-generated events 
and translate them into POSIX signals (SIGUP, say).

Randall Schulz


At 17:16 2003-07-23, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> Randall R Schulz wrote:
>
> > Cygwin apps don't know about and cannot respond to the 
> > system-generated messages that request that applications quit in 
> > preparation for the system to shut down or the user to log off.
>
> "Cannot respond to"? When a system-generated message that requests 
> that applications quit in preparation for the systme to shut down or 
> the user to log off why can Cygwin apps (in particular bash or other 
> shell) simply do what it would have done if TMOUT was just triggered?
>
>       TMOUT  If set to a value greater than zero, TMOUT  is  treated  as  the
>              default timeout for the read builtin.  The select command termi-
>              nates if input does not arrive after TMOUT seconds when input is
>              coming  from  a terminal.  In an interactive shell, the value is
>              interpreted as the number of seconds to  wait  for  input  after
>              issuing  the  primary prompt.  Bash terminates after waiting for
>              that number of seconds if input does not arrive.


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