On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 10:51:10PM -0500, David Golden wrote:

> However, I'd like to get some consensus on how interrupted commands
> should be graded...
> 
> Options:
> 
> (1) DISCARD -- just throw it away as junk
> 
> (2) UNKNOWN -- indicating that something weird/inconclusive happened
> 
> I think that (1) is safer -- where 'safe' means less noise about false
> positives

Agreed.

>           but then what should we do in the case when someone
> intentionally hits CTRL-C because something has gotten hung up?

Then the user knows that he's dunnit and why, and can choose to contact
the author himself, surely.

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