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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> I don't know if this is what you are seeing but If you are blocked in a
> Windows function like WaitMessage or WaitForSingleObject, the signal
> will not be delivered until some random time after you leave the
> function.

Alright, that's what it is then.

> One way around this is to start a thread and wait for signals in that
> thread.

I've added a thread doing 'for (;;) pause();', but unfortunately that 
doesn't seem to do the trick. Do I need to go into Cygwin internals and 
wait directly on the Win32 event(s) used for signals?

Andy


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