> On Mon, 1 May 2000, Jerome LAURET wrote:
>
> > I think that there is a missfeature. Whenever I use CTRL/C, I do have
> > the "Really exit from Lynx (y) ?" question poping-up but regardless of what
> > I would answer, I always have the session resuming to it's current operation.
> > That's a bit bothering ...
> > Is this seen on other platform ? (btw : independant of Slang).
>
> This cannot appear on other platforms than VMS: the prompt in
> response to ^C is implemented only for VMS, on other platforms ^C
> exits immediately (if it doesn't get completely ignored). It isn't "safe"
> to call I/O functions from interrupt handlers (I don't know why VMS gets
> away with it).
VMS implements a reasonable facsimile of synchronous terminal I/O
(so nothing really gets processed out of order).
> Klaus
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