SIGQUIT reported as SIGSEGV

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Wed May 1 00:33:00 GMT 2013


On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 07:11:19AM -0500, Daniel R. Grayson wrote:
>SIGQUIT is erroneously delivered as SIGSEGV in this circumstance:
>
>    $ sleep 1000 &
>    [1] 9148
>    $ kill -QUIT %1
>    $    < press return if necessary here >
>    [1]+  Segmentation fault      (core dumped) sleep 1000

This should be fixed in the next snapshot.  This behavior was likely
changed in a recent signal revamp.

Thanks for the simple test case.

cgf

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