Thanks!

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 1:17 PM, John Darrington <
j...@darrington.wattle.id.au> wrote:

> Thanks.
>
> I've pushed it with all your suggestions included, except that I have
> not bothered to replace select with poll.   Personally I find select
> easier to understand, although it is a little more verbose.
>
> J'
>
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 10:07:34PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>
>      This looks good to me.  I have some nits to pick:
>
>      According to Google, "interruptible" is the correct spelling (not
>      -able).
>
>      The code would be a little shorter and easier to read with "poll" in
>      place of "select".
>
>      It's usually advised to set both ends of the pipe into nonblocking
> mode
>      for a use like this, so that in a corner case where signals arrive
>      faster than they can be processed, filling up the pipe buffer in the
>      signal handler does not cause the "write" from the signal handler to
>      block.  (This is unlikely to happen, but it causes a mysterious hang
> if
>      it does.)
>
>      In bash, if I type control+C, then I get a new prompt on a new line.
>  In
>      PSPP, with this patch, I get a new prompt on the same line.  The shell
>      behavior seems better to me; it is more familiar, at any rate.
>
>      "memcpy (buf, "\n", 1);" seems like a long way to write "*buf = '\n';"
>
>      Thanks,
>
>      Ben.
>
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