From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: delete-process bug Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 10:50:42 +0200 Message-ID: <85d5dxfc4d.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87k69eyddj.fsf@lrde.org> <87fyj0r41g.fsf@lrde.org> <20060524112846.GA12046@agmartin.aq.upm.es> <87bqtmjrsh.fsf_-_@lrde.org> <87odxjakox.fsf@lrde.org> <8764jrlewm.fsf@lrde.org> <87pshyqgtd.fsf@lrde.org> <87fyiuq9t5.fsf@lrde.org> <877j45rj3w.fsf@lrde.org> <87odxhq1ah.fsf@lrde.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1148892696 1439 80.91.229.2 (29 May 2006 08:51:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 08:51:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Agustin Martin , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Micha=EBl?= Cadilhac , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 29 10:51:33 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FkdT9-0001vA-1z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 May 2006 10:51:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FkdT8-0007ii-KY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 May 2006 04:51:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FkdSw-0007ge-SP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 May 2006 04:51:10 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FkdSw-0007fX-D4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 May 2006 04:51:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FkdSw-0007fE-9j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 May 2006 04:51:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FkdYT-0008WF-3s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 May 2006 04:56:53 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1FkdSu-0007F0-MM; Mon, 29 May 2006 04:51:08 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id B21A41CE3134; Mon, 29 May 2006 10:50:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) In-Reply-To: (Kim F. Storm's message of "Mon, 29 May 2006 10:22:13 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:55418 Archived-At: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes: > And to Eli: > > I also saw how MS-Windows handles process termination without SIGCHLD. > Actually, it would do harm if SIGCHLD was ever defined on MS-Windows, > so perhaps we should explicitly add something like this after > all includes: > > > /* MS-Windows has its own way of detecting process termination. > It does not normally define SIGCHLD, but just in case... */ > #ifdef WINDOWSNT > #undef SIGCHLD > #endif I seem to remember that Cygwin emulates an awful lot of Unix/Posix functionality in its DLL. Others will be more qualified to comment on this, but the mere use of WINDOWSNT might not necessarily mean that SIGCHLD can't work: it might be provided by the emulation layer. Could somebody who actually knows Cygwin by more than heresay fill in the details and tell whether I am completely wrong here? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum