Well and plainly spoken, Matt.  I use upstart (don't even get me going on
forever).

I will admit that I sometimes pound out an interactive tool out of
expedience and that it would be nice to suppress some signals as a guard
against my fat fingers, but that's an informed choice and not any
shortcoming of POSIX, node, etc.
On Mar 22, 2012 7:59 AM, "Matt" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I think it's just a reason not to rely on running your process
> interactively in a production environment. Use runit or forever or some
> other backgrounding solution. I have no idea why people are getting their
> pants in a knot over ctrl-s pausing a process.
>
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 10:55 AM, C. Mundi <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Bummer.  I never thought about that, but it makes sense now that I do.
>> One more reason not to rely on stdin/stdout for stuff I don't want
>> interrupted I guess.
>> On Mar 22, 2012 7:21 AM, "Ben Noordhuis" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 05:37, C. Mundi <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> > According to the docs, POSIX signals are mapped to events.  I was
>>> planning
>>> > on just catching them.  I assume that's how the "press ctrlC again to
>>> exit"
>>> > is implemented for the REPL.  Corrections?
>>>
>>> Some signals are. For example, you can catch Ctrl-C with
>>> process.on('SIGINT', cb) (maybe not on Windows).
>>>
>>> However, signals like SIGSTOP (which is what some terminals send if
>>> you press Ctrl-S) cannot be caught.
>>>
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