It seems they are having troubles with signals at cygnus, at least
with
blocking socket calls. Some might be fixed in the next DLL release.
See
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-05/msg00570.html and 'a'
reply
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-05/msg00752.html
In case it might avoid headaches...
I just downloaded and tried cygwin1-20010519.dll and I am still unable to
C-g my problems away....