On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 08:11:14PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I disagree that psql should make *any* assumptions about what SIGINT > means to the child process. Consider less again, and Control-C used > to abort a search. You are suggesting that Control-C should not only > abort the search, but should also cut off the input from less. Less > won't die. Less will just see a terminated input stream. What has been > gained from this? Is this intuitive behaviour?
I must say I agree with the idea that Ctrl-C shouldn't stop the stream from psql, but I'm willing to let it slide because a lot of other programs work this way. I imagine asking it to be configurable will meet even more resistance. > I think the only reasonable behaviour is to ignore SIGINT within the > parent, until the child exits. I don't see why other behaviours are > even being considered. To me, it points at a misunderstanding of the > problem. I've been playing with a version of psql which on Ctrl-C doesn't longjmp() but politely frees everything, waits for the pager and then back to the main loop with the message "Interrupted". But now we have another behaviour change: How to abort the gets() when you don't have readline? Doing it with a flag is a lot more susceptable to subtle behaviour changes, but I'll see if I can make it work. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a > tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone > else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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