Re: Reading D-Bus messages

[Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>]

On 9/23/2010 10:46 AM, Michael Albinus wrote:
> Ken Brown<kbrown@cornell.edu>  writes:
>
>> I was wrong about SIGIO being defined in Cygwin.  (I was careless in
>> my grepping and didn't look closely enough at the header files.)  And
>> an answer just appeared on the Cygwin list, saying that SIGIO is
>> undefined because the functionality is not implemented.
>>
>> So now the question is just finding the best way to deal with this.
>> Do you understand why gobble_input is called only if SIGIO is defined?
>
> Don't know. ChangeLog.1 says:
>
> 1986-01-23  Richard M. Stallman  (rms@prep)
>
>              * dispnew.c (Fsit_for):
>              Call gobble_input only if SIGIO exists.
>
> 1985-11-01  Richard M. Stallman  (rms@prep)
>
>              * keyboard.c (gobble_input, input_available_signal,
>                kbd_buffer_store_char):
>                Make these functions exist only if SIGIO is defined.
>
> 1985-10-16  Richard M. Stallman  (rms@mit-prep)
>
>              * keyboard.c:
>              Get error instead of croaking if want to send SIGTSTP.
>              Get compile time error in gobble_input if SIGIO is not
>              defined.

Well, I'll just try it for a while and see if I notice any problems as a 
result of using gobble_input without SIGIO.  If not, I'll upload a new 
Cygwin test release and see what happens.

Thank you very much for all the time and effort you put into this.

Best regards,

Ken