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Re: TCL Signal Handling


On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, GregMo wrote:

> Okay, I'm prepared to be chastised as I'm fubbling in the dark here, but
> does anyone know much about signal handling in TCL?  From what I have
> gathered on the subject, TCL doesn't inheritly have any handling functions
> but one can obtain extentions to add these in.  Has anyone done this on
> cygwin?
>
> The really frustrating part here is that I'm working with a multi-threaded
> TCL script that runs flawlessly on *nix, and all but works on cygwin.  When
> it halts, it exits with 128 which indicates an unhandled signal from the OS.
> Just a sheer guess, but I'm thinking it's because we're getting a signal
> here from Windows that isn't present on *nix?  If so, is or isn't this
> something that should be included in the porting of TCL?  Any suggestions
> for a work-around to get things going?
>
> TIA,
> Greg

Greg,

According to the TclTk package announcement[*], Tcl and Tcl/Tk questions
should be addressed to the insight mailing list.  If you are able to
isolate the problem in a small testcase that doesn't require Tcl to
reproduce, please resubmit it to this list.
HTH,
	Igor
[*] <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-02/msg01093.html>
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