Re: WINDOWS32 "Signal 127" due to a path in quotes bug

[J. Grant]

Hi Paul,

> In UNIX/POSIX, it's the responsibility of the operating system to send
> signals to all the processes in the same process group.  Since make
> doesn't change its process group ever, that means that all make
> programs, AND the processes that they invoke (compilers and whatever)
> are in the same process group (unless some program that make invokes
> explicitly changes its process group, which is not likely for the kinds
> of things make would run).
>
> That means that when you ^C, all the processes get a SIGINT, including
> all instances of make AND all programs make invokes.  In a UNIX/POSIX
> system make doesn't need to "forward" any signals, and so there's no
> code in make to do that.

Ok. thank you for explaining. So is the reason the two main.exe do not
terminate because my main.c program does not handle SIGINT?

If so, I wonder why SIGINT (ctrl+C) terminates the two "main" processes on
GNU/Linux?

Kind regards
JG