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Re: [RFC] Block all async signals used by gdb when initializing Guile
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: [RFC] Block all async signals used by gdb when initializing Guile |
Date: |
Sun, 30 Aug 2015 05:35:44 +0300 |
> Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2015 13:39:55 -0700
> From: Doug Evans <address@hidden>
> Cc: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>, guile-devel <address@hidden>
>
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2015 12:20:24 -0700
> >> From: Doug Evans <address@hidden>
> >> Cc: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>, guile-devel <address@hidden>
> >>
> >> > What about platforms that don't have sigprocmask, but do have SIGINT?
> >> > Don't we want to block SIGINT on those platforms?
> >>
> >> Do they have threads
> >
> > They might. (The only way I've succeeded to have a working Guile on
> > Windows was to disable threads, but I hope that bug will be fixed one
> > day.)
> >
> >> and how does one block SIGINT on those platforms?
> >
> > With a call to 'signal', I guess.
>
> I'm guessing that won't work here, we'll need something else.
I don't understand why. Can you explain? Maybe I'm missing
something.
> The issue is we need the threads that guile starts
> to have these signals blocked. Then after guile init
> returns we unblock the signals.
Inhibit SIGINT ech time before calling Guile and restore it after
Guile returns. Wouldn't that do what you want?