Re: [boost] [GSoC] Some Ideas about the Boost.Process

Subject: Re: [boost] [GSoC] Some Ideas about the Boost.Process
From: Boris Schaeling (boris_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-03-25 17:37:58

On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:16:34 +0100, Felipe Tanus <fotanus_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> [...]
>> Second it's
>> true that Windows doesn't support signals at all (apart from those two  
>> you
>> mentioned and I think SIGFPE). You are then in POSIX land anyway?
>
> Windows support signals. I got this from signal.h (from a windows  
> system):
>
> [quote]
> #define SIGINT        2       /* interrupt */
> #define SIGILL       4       /* illegal instruction - invalid function  
> image */
> #define SIGFPE        8       /* floating point exception */
> #define SIGSEGV       11      /* segment violation */
> #define SIGTERM       15      /* Software termination signal from kill */
> #define SIGBREAK      21      /* Ctrl-Break sequence */
> #define SIGABRT       22      /* abnormal termination triggered by
> [/quote]

According to MSDN SIGILL, SIGSEGV and SIGTERM are not generated. Thus we  
have support for incredible four signals - not sure if it's worth to  
create a platform independent library because of this. :)

Boris