| From: | "Merlin Moncure" <merlin(dot)moncure(at)rcsonline(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Marsh Ray" <marsh-pg(at)mysteray(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "pgsql-hackers-win32" <pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: signals on windows |
| Date: | 2003-10-10 17:08:46 |
| Message-ID: | 303E00EBDD07B943924382E153890E5434A9ED@cuthbert.rcsinc.local |
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>It doesn't look like a "signal" is not a kernel primitive on NT, it's a
>feature of the CRT implemented in userspace with lower-level OS
primitives.
That is correct. Signals in the Unix sense of the word do not exist in
win32. A subset of them was emulated by the C runtime for compatibility
with dos applications. All real win32 process messaging goes through
messages.
Exception handling, however, is a kernel primitive, and handles some
cases like int/0 that normally would be handled by signals. Microsoft
hacked the C language to include exception support for this reason.
Merlin
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