Re: Using SetConsoleCtrlHandler

Windows is not very good at handling this sort of asynchronous interrupt on
a single thread Emmanuel (i.e. similar to UNIX signals, or even VMS ASTs)

The question has been asked before:
http://groups.google.ie/group/microsoft.public.win32.programmer.kernel/browse_frm/thread/608ad10204f76515/1e175f06dca6106f?hl=en#1e175f06dca6106f

I've even found myself in the same boat in trying to port a language, and
its framework, to the Windows O/S. In the end, I suspended the thread, read
its context, redirected it to a point that would generate the required
exception, and then released it. Surprisingly, it worked OK in practice
(although not on Alpha AXP H/W) but there were a few issues with win32 api
calls that had to be addressed (mentioned in that old thread)

Tony Proctor

"Emmanuel Stapf [ES]" <manus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:uQhAUi9pHHA.1144@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi,

I've a console single threaded application and I'm trying to catch a
Ctrl+C. No
matter if I use SetConsoleCtrlHandler or a signal handler, my code to
handle
this gets called in another thread. Is there a way to have the handler
called
from the main thread?

In the code below, simply comment the call to `signal' or to
`SetConsoleCtrlHandler' to observe the similar behavior. On Unix, using
`signal', it is called from the same thread.

Thanks for any highlight,
Manu

PS: this is shown by the code:

#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <signal.h>

BOOL CtrlHandler( DWORD fdwCtrlType )
{
switch( fdwCtrlType ) {
case CTRL_C_EVENT:
printf( "Ctrl-C event\n\n" );
return TRUE;
default:
return FALSE;
}
}

void handler (int sig) {
printf ("From Signal\n");
signal (SIGINT, handler);
}

void main( void )
{
signal (SIGINT, handler);
//SetConsoleCtrlHandler( (PHANDLER_ROUTINE) CtrlHandler, TRUE );

printf("Use Ctrl+C to see what is going on.\n" );
while( 1 ){ }
}


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