Handling CTRL_LOGOFF_EVENT
Christopher Faylor
cgf@cygnus.com
Sun Feb 28 23:02:00 GMT 1999
On Fri, Feb 19, 1999 at 03:36:19PM -0800, Curtis Galloway wrote:
>Sergey Okhapkin wrote:
>> CTRL_LOGOFF_EVENT is sent to every running application including services.
>
>Yes, but does it terminate your process if you return FALSE in your handler? I
>don't think so.
>
>I did a quick test using my modified cygwin1.dll. I created a simple program
>that does nothing but write log messages to a file, and installed it as a
>service using the NT Resource Kit's SRVANY.EXE tool. Even though my modified
>event handler returns FALSE, my test service survived through logging out and
>back in again.
>
>Perhaps my test was invalid. If so, I'd be happy to hear about it. (I still
>don't think the signal handling in exceptions.cc is quite right; it appears to
>not give programs a chance to handle the CTRL_CLOSE_EVENT or
>CTRL_SHUTDOWN_EVENT before Windows kills the process off.)
If you guys can come to a consensus on this, I'll be happy to put whatever
fix you think fixes the problem into cygwin.
-chris
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