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Re: PATCH: Readline on MinGW
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- Cc: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>, bug-readline at gnu dot org,gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 16:12:15 -0400
- Subject: Re: PATCH: Readline on MinGW
- References: <4270886B.1020806@codesourcery.com> <01c54c2d$Blat.v2.4$f3029840@zahav.net.il>
On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 11:06:45PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I am not sure `raise' is a 100% compatible replacement for `kill',
> since the latter really delivers a signal, and so is subject to rules
> regarding blocked signals, while `raise' simlpy calls the signal
> handler and AFAIK is not specified to observe blocked signals.
>
> So I suggest to use `raise' only on systems, such as MinGW, which lack
> `kill', not everywhere.
Could you give me a reference for this? POSIX disagrees:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/raise.html
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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