On 3/1/11 1:28 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> A real interactive program that uses ^C (like an editor) isn't
> actually ever going to see a SIGINT _at_all_, since it will set the
> tty state to -isig, and actually read the ^C as the character '\003'
> rather than have any SIGINT issues). I dunno.
I will look at the rest of this, but in the case of GNU emacs, for
instance, the above is not true. Emacs either keeps isig and makes
^G the interrupt character, or sets -isig and sends SIGINT to its own
pgrp when it reads ^G. Regardless, an enclosing script gets a SIGINT
when you use ^G in GNU emacs.
Chet
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