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Date:	Mon, 11 May 2009 02:52:27 +0200
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Subject:	Re: How to detect a cygwin thread?
From:	Piotr Wyderski <piotr DOT wyderski AT gmail DOT com>
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Christopher Faylor wrote:

>=A0This isn't a bug in Cygwin.

I've never made a statement that it is. It's just
an unexpected and undesired behaviour I wanted
to get rid of. The context was there to make it
clear what exactly is happening on that particular
control flow path.

> Your takeaway from this is:
>
> 1) I don't care about this. =A0Not suspending the "sig" thread fixes my
> problem.

Yes, it does. And since when it happens, the
program is about to die anyway, I don't think
that tracking its exact causes is worth of my
effort.

> =A0We try hard not to call SuspendThread when the program is in the middl=
e of
> a Windows call.

I don't use the function either, except when
under abnormal circumstances, when I have
the very last chance to report a problem.

Piotr

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