YA please test the latest snapshot

Adam Dinwoodie Adam.Dinwoodie@metaswitch.com
Mon Aug 20 13:47:00 GMT 2012


Christopher Faylor wrote:
> I've made some more signal-related fixes in the latest snapshot.
>
> I was able to duplicate a ping (but who knows if it THE ping problem)
> problem by running my script which kills a ping running in a while (1)
> loop under tcsh.  I tweaked the test to use a system in Germany as the
> target which seemed to make it somewhat easier to cause a hang.  That
> uncovered at least one problem and eventually exposed another,
> unrelated, longstanding problem which could have confused some programs
> which receive signals in quick succession.  The second problem would
> have existed in all versions of Cygwin since ~2004.
>
> This snapshot should also fix the reported problem with SIGSTOP.  It
> also has a fix for clipboard handling from Thomas Wolff.
>
> Feedback requested.

I have not been able to reproduce the ping issue I previously reported.
Thank you!

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