Re: SIGTSTP and select

[Bob Rossi <bob_rossi at cox dot net>]

On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 08:37:53PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 08:07:23PM -0400, Bob Rossi wrote:
> >I'm not exactly sure what has changed since the last release to cause
> >this issue. However, here it is.
> >
> >When ctrl-z is typed, CGDB receives a SIGTSTP on both linux and cygwin.
> >When CGDB is at the select loop and this happens on linux select returns
> >-1 and errno is set to EINTR. My code simple does a 'continue' when this
> >happens and the select loop is reentered. All works well. On cygwin,
> >select does not return with -1. (I didn't check the return value but I
> >can, I just compare to -1 in an if statement). In fact, select also
> >detects that input is ready on stdin. This causes CGDB to get to a read
> >system call (which is non blocking) and the read system call fails with
> >errno set to EAGAIN. This causes CGDB to exit.
> >
> >The main loop looks something like this,
> >  if (select (max + 1, &rset, NULL, NULL, NULL) == -1)
> >    { 
> >      if (errno == EINTR)
> >        continue;
> >      ..
> >    }
> >
> >  if (FD_ISSET (STDIN_FILENO, &rset)) {
> >    handle_stdin
> >  }
> >
> >So, my question is, is there a bug with select on cygwin? Is select
> >working properly and I should handle the read call differently? Why does
> >it act differently than linux?
> 
> You say that something changed between different releases but you don't
> mention what those releases are.  Is this releases of Cygwin?  If so,
> what releases?
> 
> If this is as easy to demonstrate as you say, then a simple test case
> is definitely called for.

Hi Christopher,

Attached is the test case. If I run it under linux, and then type ctrl-z, I 
never get into the user_input_loop call. If I run it in cygwin, I do.

Hopefully I'm doing something wrong here. Please advise!

Thanks,
Bob Rossi

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