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

Subject: Re: [boost] [GSoC] Some Ideas about the Boost.Process
From: Felipe Tanus (fotanus_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-03-25 21:24:42

Hi Santos,

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Bruno Santos <bsantos_at_[hidden]> wrote:

>> [quote]
>> #define SIGINT Â  Â  Â  Â 2 Â  Â  Â  /* interrupt */
>> #define SIGILL Â  Â  Â  4 Â  Â  Â  /* illegal instruction - invalid function image */
>> #define SIGFPE Â  Â  Â  Â 8 Â  Â  Â  /* floating point exception */
>> #define SIGSEGV Â  Â  Â  11 Â  Â  Â /* segment violation */
>> #define SIGTERM Â  Â  Â  15 Â  Â  Â /* Software termination signal from kill */
>> #define SIGBREAK Â  Â  Â 21 Â  Â  Â /* Ctrl-Break sequence */
>> #define SIGABRT Â  Â  Â  22 Â  Â  Â /* abnormal termination triggered by
>> [/quote]
>>
>
> [...]
> To make this clear, the win32 subsystem does not support signals!
> By the way, the POSIX subsystem uses an undocumented NT mechanism (a
> debug port) to properly implement signals.
>
I got a good lesson here: Don't be fooled by windows header files!
Thanks for the warning.

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