okay, since strace seems to be a nice thing, i just tried icecast-cygwin on strace ... the spooky thing happened. before using strace, signal did not work on icecast-cygwin, and a win32-exception (no stackdump, triggers dr. watson) occurs at the end when icecast tries to shutdown ("waiting a wee ..."). now, when i use strace, neither problems remain. strace-icecast (despite with the output now directed to a file -- which i verified makes no difference) could catch interrupt signal from console window. neither does it raise an uncaught win32-exception when it (strace-icecast-cygwin) is remotely shutdown.
i'll take a look strace's source code. for the time being, if anyone wants to comment on this, please do. liulk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/