bug#14553: closed ([cygwin] C-g doesn't interrupt (while t))

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> 24.3.50; C-g doesn't break inf-loop
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> Tue, 04 Jun 2013 15:10:48 +0900
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> Hi,
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> Start Emacs with the -Q option.
> Eval the form: (while t)
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> Then I get unable to break it.  So is Emacs 24.3.  This may happen
> only on Cygwin, though.  It makes me hard to debug a code suspected
> to have an infinite loop.
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> In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i686-pc-cygwin, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
>  of 2013-06-04 on localhost
> Bzr revision: 112842 michael.albinus@gmx.de-20130603193806-1f2pilg1t709mqyg
> Windowing system distributor `The Cygwin/X Project', version 11.0.11401000
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>  --without-dbus --without-gconf --without-gsettings'
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> On 1/10/2024 6:14 AM, Stefan Kangas wrote:
> > Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org> writes:
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> > > Sounds like a problem with signal delivery. Have you reported it to the
> > > cygwin mailing list?
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> > Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:
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> > > Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:
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> > > > > That was six years ago.  Are you still seeing this on a modern version
> > > > > of Emacs?
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> > > > C-g still doesn't break (while t) on Emacs 27.0.50 of today, and
> > > > also on 26.3.50, 26.1, 25.1 rebuilt recently.  I got used to it,
> > > > so I'm not so troubled. ;-)  Thanks for following this up.
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> > > Thanks for reporting back.
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> > > Daniel Colascione suggested that there might be a problem with signal
> > > delivery on Cygwin, and to report it to their mailing list:
> > > https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=14553#20
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> > > Perhaps that might be worth doing if you haven't already.
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> > Coming back to this four years later, it sounds like this might be a bug
> > in Cygwin.  Is that correct?
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> Not sure.
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> > If yes, should we really keep this bug open on our end?
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> I think it should be closed, and I'm doing it with this email.
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> Ken
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