tags 259715 + wontfix
done
Marc Haber <[email protected]> wrote:
> when I hit ctrl-c during download or package installation, I get
> returned to the shell. Please consider adding a ctrl-c handler that
> only aborts download and/or package installation and returns to
> aptitude.
Current behaviour of aptitude/0.6.4-1.2:
`C-c' during download => shell
`q' during download => aptitude
Generally a user expects `C-c' to interupt the entire program and as
aptitude already has `q' available to abort a download I don't see
good reason to change this behaviour.
`C-c' during install => (ignored)
`q' during install => (ignored)
During an install aptitude passes control to libapt-pkg which passes
control to dpkg. Handling SIGINT during this is a bad idea:
(From apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc:1069)
/* Mask off sig int/quit. We do this because dpkg also does when
it forks scripts. What happens is that when you hit ctrl-c it sends
it to all processes in the group. Since dpkg ignores the signal
it doesn't die but we do! So we must also ignore it */
Situation unlikely to change so I am marking this `wontfix'. Please
adjust if anyone disagrees.
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