Re[2]: Win32/MinGW port

From: Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov gmx net>
To: Pavel Roskin <proski gnu org>
Cc: Piotr Lakomy <PiotrL cft-inc net>, Alexander Varakin <avarakin00 hotmail com>, Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov gmx net>, <mc-devel gnome org>
Subject: Re[2]: Win32/MinGW port
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 13:03:10 +0200

Hello, Pavel!

>> Current version is randomly freezing (not responding
>> to keyboard). That looked harder to debug than native build :)

PR> This patch fixes it.  Yes, it was hard to debug (2 hours).

Cool! :)

[snip]

PR> Somebody is blocking SIGCHLD, so even old_mask has SIGCHLD blocked,
PR> therefore the subsequent sigsuspend() call hangs forever.  I'm not sure if
PR> it's going to be the final fix (I'm not applying it yet), but it should be
PR> a reasonably good workaround for Cygwin users for now.

It is interesting that this behaviour appears randomly - you can work
for 10 minutes and then get the hang, or you can get it at the very
beggining.

References:
- RE: Win32/MinGW port
  - From: Pavel Roskin

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