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From: "Mike Ruskai" <thanny AT spambegone DOT home DOT com>
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Subject: Re: SIGINT handling with CTRL-C
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Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 20:00:28 GMT
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On Tue, 2 Mar 1999 18:09:25 +0200 (IST), Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>
>On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Mike Ruskai wrote:
>
>> I've set up a handler with signal(), and tried calling __djgpp_set_ctrl_c()
>> both before and after it.
>
>For starters, I don't understand why did you need to call 
>__djgpp_set_ctrl_c at all.  The SIGINT handler should have been called 
>without it.

I added it because that wasn't the case.

>> But CTRL-C still results in an immediate end to the program, without going to
>> the SIGINT handler.
>
>On what operating system?  DOS? Windows 3.X? Windows 9X? Windows NT? 
>Linux/DOSEmu?

Your question prompted me to test, and it appears to only fail in an OS/2
VDM.  Under Win95, the ^C is displayed, but the handler does execute.  Same
under PC-DOS 7 with CWSDPMI.

Since I have an OS/2 native version of the program, functionality there isn't
critical.

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