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Re: Improvement suggestion: listen to signals to adjust number of jobs
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Improvement suggestion: listen to signals to adjust number of jobs |
Date: |
Tue, 23 May 2017 22:31:14 +0300 |
> Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 20:59:01 +0200
> From: Henrik Carlqvist <address@hidden>
>
> My intention has been to make the patch work with
> both Unix and Windows, but unfortunately I have no Windows machine to test
> with. I'm not even sure if Windows supports bsd signals. If not, my
> changes to w32/w32os.c should better be undone.
There are no signals on Windows, not in the Posix sense. Certainly
there is nothing similar to SIGUSR2 there.
If we want to support this feature on Windows, we need to use some
other mechanism, like maybe the Ctrl-BREAK handler?
Thanks.