Re: Octave under Windows in a teaching environment.

[John W. Eaton]

On  9-Jan-2008, Michael Goffioul wrote:

| These problems are known and related to the way Win32 handle signals
| internally. The code within octave to do this is tricky and honestly I don't
| understand it, but it's far more complex than the Linux version.

I don't understand it either (I know almost nothing about programming
for Windows).  In any case, since it seems possible for Cygwin
applications to handle interrupts in a reliable way, can't we look at
that code in Cygwin to see what it is doing and apply the same method
to Octave itself?

jwe