Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 07:37:14 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: unixy sbrk and win2k
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On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu wrote:

> If EMACS doesn't require the keyboard interrupt hook, it might be worth
> while to try disabling it to see if that improves stability.

Emacs doesn't use the signal machinery which is the reason for hooking 
the keyboard.  If you don't hook the keyboard interrupt, you will lose 
the ability to interrupt lengthy computations or infloops, and the 
so-called ``emergency shutdown'' which on Unix is activated by pressing 
Ctrl-g twice, but otherwise Emacs will work okay.

> I'm 
> thinking we need a crt0 flag (or some other hack) for "don't hook keyboard"?  

Probably.