Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] resubmission of Win32-specific EINTR handling

[Felix]

From: John Cowan <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] resubmission of Win32-specific EINTR 
handling
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 11:00:23 -0500

> Felix scripsit:
> 
>> It would actually be helpful to know wether EINTR is fully working on
>> cygwin. To test it, one just has to start csi and press Ctrl-C, where
>> csi should simply report "*** user interrupt ***" and show another
>> impot prompt.
> 
> Well, if you are at the command prompt you have to push ^C and then
> ENTER, and then you get the "*** user interrupt ***".  In effect, the ^C
> is not seen until the read() has completed.  But if code is executing,
> ^C by itself is enough.

Excellent - thanks for the information. So Ctrl-C will not terminate csi
and leave you at the next input-prompt, right?


cheers,
felix