On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 12:52:47PM +0000, Heiko Elger wrote: >Hello, > >Corinna Vinschen writes: >> >> The slowdown of the code was the result of a patch which was supposed >> to fix a potential race condition. Jojelino's patch looks nice, but >> it might reintroduce a new race. Handle with care. >Oops - what king of race condition do you mean. > >OK - that's a new information for me. >So the current slow implementation is a workaround for another race condition.
The signal startup has been very carefully crafted. Starting wait_sig asynchronously could create inability to send signals. I can't check this right now. I should be back near my Windows system on the weekend. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
