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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 00:58:43 -0800
From: Robert Roessler <robertr at rftp.com>
Organization: Robert's High-performance Software
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To: lablgtk at math.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Subject: SIGINTR from Caml code? On Windows?
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I am trying to finish my LablGTK interface to the Caml toplevel, and I 
notice that one of the pieces of *nix functionality that *could* have 
been done for Windows was not... in particular, kill could have been 
partially implemented to the extent of handling SIGINTR...

This would have been quite useful in allowing a Caml program to "send" 
this signal to any process sharing the same Win32 "console".  Even 
more frustrating, the Caml runtime is ready to receive SIGINTR-like 
events. :(

Is there a way around this?  Obviously, one can construct a 
Caml-callable piece of C which does a "GenerateConsoleCtrlEvent" (for 
instance), but this defeats the whole point of having a Caml/GTK-based 
[portable] GUI for Caml.  Sigh.

This is one of those times when I really hope I am missing something... :)

Robert Roessler
robertr@rftp.com
http://www.rftp.com