Re: OT: Windows (Was: Re: Open Source does not mean easily

On Tue, 7 Jan 2025 17:19:56 -0000 (UTC)
cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) wibbled:

In article <vljmc6$29tkd$1@dont-email.me>,  <Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org> wrote:

On Tue, 7 Jan 2025 16:02:51 -0000 (UTC)

In the kernel, it sure is.  Unix programmers have been writing
asynchronous programs (using e.g. `fork`) since 1970.

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Thats not what we're discussion here and you know it.

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Actually, it is.

Ah ok, goalposts moved. Why not some straw men while you're at it?

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/tree/sig.c?h=devel#n691

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Basically sets flags.

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Did you actually read and understand any of that code?

Did you?

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Not a clever way to do it because an xterm and other terminal progs can
indirectly cause a whole load of SIGWINCH to be created if someone is

resizing

it and only the final one really needs the ioctl call done. Better to set a
flag then manually do a call when appropriate.

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Ok.  You may even be right!  But tell me: where would you check
those flags?

Presuably a genius like you would know most terminal programs have a seperate
thread or a multiplex timeout in order to flash the cursor. You work out
the rest.

Regardless, here you are, again, moving the goalposts in the
face of evidence that contradicted your earlier position.

Irony, love it.

There are always exceptions to every rule. You seem to be so desperate to
win this argument I can only assume your fragile ego has been burst by
someone having the temerity to disagree with you. Tough, suck it up.

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Ah, here we go.  The classic attempt at an insult.

If the shoe fits.

Look, you made categorical, definitive statements.  Those
statements were factually incorrect.  I pointed that out.  You

No, I stated the majority approach to using signals. You disagree which is
fine, but don't pretent your view is THE view, it isn't.

Perhaps I am not the one with the fragile ego that needs to suck
it up when disagreed with.

Ego size on usenet is almost always correlated with the verbiage of a reply.