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[cygwin] C-g doesn't interrupt (while t)

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Message #36 received at 14553 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka <at> jpl.org>
Cc: 14553 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>
Subject: Re: bug#14553: [cygwin] C-g doesn't interrupt (while t)
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:14:11 -0800

Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org> writes:

> Sounds like a problem with signal delivery. Have you reported it to the
> cygwin mailing list?

Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka <at> jpl.org> writes:
>
>> > That was six years ago.  Are you still seeing this on a modern version
>> > of Emacs?
>>
>> C-g still doesn't break (while t) on Emacs 27.0.50 of today, and
>> also on 26.3.50, 26.1, 25.1 rebuilt recently.  I got used to it,
>> so I'm not so troubled. ;-)  Thanks for following this up.
>
> Thanks for reporting back.
>
> Daniel Colascione suggested that there might be a problem with signal
> delivery on Cygwin, and to report it to their mailing list:
> https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=14553#20
>
> Perhaps that might be worth doing if you haven't already.

Coming back to this four years later, it sounds like this might be a bug
in Cygwin.  Is that correct?

If yes, should we really keep this bug open on our end?

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