Re: Next release: signal handling rewrite

[Gisle Vanem]

Paul Smith wrote:

> What I'm considering is enhancing the EINTRLOOP etc. macros that I have
> added across the code to check all system calls for EINTR and restart them,
> so that this macro also checks to see if a signal has been received and if
> so, calls a handler function.  For almost all signals this is just die()
> although of course for SIGCHLD we need something different.  This seems
> like a straightforward way to quickly detect signals without a lot of code
> churn.

I hope this will improve the situation on Windows where pressing
^C during make (even a 'make -n') will many times just cause make
to hang. It seems another ^C will cause the 'SetConsoleCtrlHandler()'
to simply create another thread that does nothing.

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