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RE: signals from non-cygwin processes?
- To: "gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>, "'Tim Newsham'" <newsham at lava dot net>
- Subject: RE: signals from non-cygwin processes?
- From: Sergey Okhapkin <sos at prospect dot com dot ru>
- Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 12:51:43 +0300
Tim Newsham wrote:
> I would like to be able to send a cygwin process a signal
> from a non-cygwin process. When one cygwin process wants to
> signal another it does it with a message as:
>
> SendMessage(hwnd, WM_USER, SIGNAL, signo);
>
It would be much better to call cygwin.dll-provided kill() export. Signal
handling in b18, in coolview and in upcoming b19 differs very much. More
precisely, nobody knows now exactly, how signals will be handled in b19 :-)
--
Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia
Looking for a job.
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