tags 229854 pending thanks On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 08:53:05PM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> It was recently pointed out to me that ^Cing aptitude will cause > problems with the display; the reporter suggested that I install a > signal handler to fix the problem. This seemed a bit odd to me, since I > already have a number of signal handlers to catch terminating signals > and restore the terminal state. > > It turned out that dpkgpm.cc has several calls to signal(). > Presumably this has to do with getting dpkg to run properly -- but the > signals are not restored to their previous values after dpkg finishes. Yes, the comment in the source explains that this is necessary because dpkg blocks these signals. > Of course, there's an obvious workaround -- I'll just bracket the > dpkg calls with manual saves/restores of the signal handlers for now, > but this is IMO incorrect behavior on the part of libapt, and it will > likely bite someone else if it hasn't already. Fixed in CVS. -- - mdz
