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Re: gdb-6.6 mingw port hangs after Ctrl-C
> Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
> From: Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com>
> Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:41:57 -0700
>
> The issue at hand here is that we need C-c to interrupt the main
> thread as it reads from the remote host. That could be a pipe, a
> socket, or a serial port.
>
> Do you know how one can safely interrupt each of these kinds of reads
> in Windows?
What do you mean by ``safely interrupt''?
FWIW, I don't think there's such thing on Windows as ``unsafe'' C-c,
since it's not really an interrupt when it gets delivered to the
application.