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Re: threads and signals


On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 05:18:05PM +0200, Thomas Pfaff wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 04:27:04PM +0200, Thomas Pfaff wrote:
>>
>>>As i already described in
>>>http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2003-q2/msg00076.html the current
>>>signal implementation does not work very well with multithreaded apps.
>>>
>>>Before i start sending patches i would like to know if there is any
>>>interest besides me for a change ?
>>
>>As I'm sure you know -- this is a huge undertaking.  That's why it is
>>not implemented.
>
>I think that it wouldn't make too much sense to start with it before the 
>next cygwin release.
>And it might make the current CVS unstable for a longer period, 
>therefore i think it is better to create a separate CVS branch for these 
>changes.

Before we do that, I'd like to hear what your plans are.  I have some
strong opinions about this so it won't make sense for you to start
implementing things that I don't agree with.

One of my major concerns is that I don't want to impact performance.

cgf


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