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Re: How to diagnose Cygwin / Windows shutdown problem


There is such a mechanism on Win2k.  I don't think there is one on Win9x.
This thread seems to indicate that there isn't one on WinXP, either, at
least not for shutdown messages.
	Igor

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Andrew DeFaria wrote:

> Randall R Schulz wrote:
>
> > Andrew,
> >
> > Cygwin apps don't have a Windows event handler do they?
>
> To tell you the truth... I don't know for sure.
>
> > 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).
>
> Makes sense to me! I would suspect that when one clicks on the close
> button in the window frame that generates a Windows event that is
> translated somehow to send a kill signal to the shell. If true then
> there is already a mechanism for Win Event -> POSIX signal.
>
> > 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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