Chris Wade wrote:
Did any of you actually check what -c does? It runs asterisk in console mode providing a CLI instead of daemon mode where it immediately forks itself away from the controlling terminal. If you run asterisk with -c it MUST (read should according to standards)
What standard is that?
The standard set by 99% of apps that fit the same usage profile as asterisk (mind you there aren't that many). Most programs that offer daemon mode and console mode react the way asterisk does, it stops when you hit ^C.
behave like any other linux process terminal and respond in some way to ^C (in fact if it doesn't itself, linux will - by killing the process).
Huh? Ctrl+C just sends a signal (SIGINT) to the process. What the program does with the signal is up to it... if it doesn't exit, the kernel isn't going to kill it.
Write a program in <insert your favorite language here>, don't specifically handle SIGINT, what happens? In *most* languages the process will exit - you have to specifically handle SIGINT and make sure not to exit if you don't want to exit on a SIGINT. So, technically, the kernel didn't kill it, it just sent the signal, but it still results in the kernel asking for and - typically - getting the process to exit. (semantics anyway)
And as for what * does when it sees ^C, it doesn't die with any error other than a message from its input handling routines saying input was interrupted (which is what ^C is by the way - an INTERRUPT).
In fact, it's a signal... the interrupt signal (that might be why they called it SIGINT :).
Again, semantics. Yes its a signal, but as you stated it is the interrupt signal, therefore it is an interrupt (software sense).
Please, we've digressed OT here - lets allow this horse to die please. As I stated in a previous post, if the -user can reproduce the crash, post it on mantis after the -user list reviews his config files.
-Chris
PS: Nick, your right on most things above - I just chose different semantics for my descriptions - maybe I shouldn't have dumbed down my words for this list - it is the -dev list after all. Kudos to you regardless.
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