sync(3)

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 05:32:51PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote:
>Christopher Faylor schrieb:
>>On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 04:36:17AM +0200, Reini Urban wrote:
>>
>>>Why is this a bad idea?
>>
>>It's a very limited implementation of what sync is supposed to do but
>>maybe it's better than nothing.
>>
>>A slightly more robust method would be to implement an internal cygwin
>>signal which could be sent to every cygwin process telling it to run
>>code like the below.
>
>A signal looks better.
>Maybe just to its master process, and all its subprocesses and threads?

I don't know what you mean by the master process.  It's easy to send signals
to every cygwin process.  You don't have to worry about threads.

cgf