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Re: [Patch]: Setting the winpid in pinfo
On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 12:29:26AM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>For example, that would also prevent a process from being killed while
>exec'ing, while the baby is still suspended. Of course an exec stub
>should still handle the signal, somehow, although you expressed other
>ideas earlier in this thread.
This part, at least, I can comment on.
You really can't turn off signals while exec'ing because you don't know
if you need to be hanging around as a stub waiting for a non-cygwin
process to terminate.
cgf