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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Alain Schneble <a.s@realize.ch>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: SIGTRAP in kill emulation on MS Windows
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 05:37:49 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83lgzpbkaq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86vaytj1lu.fsf@realize.ch> (message from Alain Schneble on Sun,  21 Aug 2016 22:42:05 +0200)

> From: Alain Schneble <a.s@realize.ch>
> Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2016 22:42:05 +0200
> 
> sys_kill in w32proc.c maps some signals (SIGINT, SIGKILL, SIGQUIT,
> SIGHUP) to the appropriate W32 API calls.  Couldn't it handle SIGTRAP as
> well and map it to a call to DebugBreakProcess
> (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms679298(v=vs.85).aspx)?

It could, but what would be the use case for this functionality?  Who
or what would trigger that signal, and what would that trigger do on a
Posix system?



  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-22  2:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-21 20:42 SIGTRAP in kill emulation on MS Windows Alain Schneble
2016-08-22  2:37 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-08-22  6:36   ` Alain Schneble
2016-08-22 14:44     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-22 14:52       ` Alain Schneble

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