Not sure if this is useful - I just found it on MSDN. It talks about porting issues, including specifically signal handling techniques (it seems to recommend using windows messaging instead of signals for some scenarios).. I am not sure how easy it would be to abstract this away by providing a signalling library that contained it all.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnucmg/html/UCMGch09.asp cheers andrew Bruce wrote: > Merlin Moncure wrote: >> Bruce, >> >> I assume then that the MinGW environment is missing signal emulation >> that is present in the Microsoft C runtime distribution? Microsoft's >> is copyrighted, of course in winsig.c (it is actually quite small, >> just a couple hundred lines of code). Are you proposing to rewrite >> that part of the CRT? I checked the redistribution license and >> winsig,etc.c are most certainly not suitable for incorporation into an >> open source project. > > I actuallly don't even know the answer. I don't know what is possible > with MinGW vs Visual C. I need help. > > I would have dug into it, but I got pretty far with MinGW, then had to > stop to catch up on email, and still not caught up enough to return to > MinGW. > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
