Cygwin 1.7: signal handler not invoked (regression from 1.5)

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Tue Oct 7 02:40:00 GMT 2008


On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 09:00:33PM +0200, Roberto Bagnara wrote:
>the following shows a problem in Cygwin 1.7 that is not present in
>Cygwin 1.5:
>
>[snip]
>
>As you see, the alarm() function is not invoked as it should (and as it
>is in Cygwin 1.5).

It was invoked ony by coincidence in 1.5.  It should be fixed in
the next snapshot.

Thanks for the test case.

cgf

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