Re: Sending signals to a subprocess

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

On 10/18/2010 10:58 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 02:06:56PM -0400, Ken Brown wrote:
> > On 10/16/2010 1:17 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> > > I could use some help fixing a longstanding bug in the Cygwin build of
> > > emacs, in which emacs is unable to send signals to subprocesses.  A
> > > symptom from the user's point of view is that one cannot interrupt a
> > > process in shell mode by typing C-c C-c.  I've found a workaround that
> > > handles that case (SIGINT), as well as SIGQUIT and SIGTSTP.  But as long
> > > as I'm fixing this, I'd like to do it right and figure out how to handle
> > > all signals.
> > >
> > > This boils down to finding the right process group ID to pass to 'kill'.
> > > On systems that have TIOCGPGRP, emacs uses the following code (in
> > > src/process.c) to get this ID:
>
> If it helps, I can implement TIOCGPGRP so it will be available in Cygwin
> 1.7.9.

Yes, that would be great.  Thanks.

Ken

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