From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28613 invoked by alias); 28 Apr 2005 20:12:22 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 28486 invoked from network); 28 Apr 2005 20:12:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 28 Apr 2005 20:12:17 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.50 #1 (Debian)) id 1DRFMt-0003tj-PK; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 16:12:15 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 20:12:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: Mark Mitchell , bug-readline@gnu.org, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: PATCH: Readline on MinGW Message-ID: <20050428201215.GA14846@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Eli Zaretskii , Mark Mitchell , bug-readline@gnu.org, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <4270886B.1020806@codesourcery.com> <01c54c2d$Blat.v2.4$f3029840@zahav.net.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <01c54c2d$Blat.v2.4$f3029840@zahav.net.il> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-SW-Source: 2005-04/txt/msg00396.txt.bz2 On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 11:06:45PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > I am not sure `raise' is a 100% compatible replacement for `kill', > since the latter really delivers a signal, and so is subject to rules > regarding blocked signals, while `raise' simlpy calls the signal > handler and AFAIK is not specified to observe blocked signals. > > So I suggest to use `raise' only on systems, such as MinGW, which lack > `kill', not everywhere. Could you give me a reference for this? POSIX disagrees: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/raise.html -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC