Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/01/14/12:36:56
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, I wrote:
> On 14 Jan 1998, Paul Derbyshire wrote:
>
> > What is Yet Another Interrupt Key good for anyway? Already there are ^C
> > and ^Break with SIGINT; now 2.02 proposes to add ^\ and SIGQUIT.
>
> Let's say you have a program which talks to the user through an
> interpreter, and lets them type procedures, or load them from a file, and
> then run them.
That was a complex example. A much simpler case where you might want
SIGQUIT is when you need a way to abort a program which has installed a
SIGINT handler and won't exit no matter what you do.
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