Path: csiph.com!optima2.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Chet Ramey Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: SIGINT handling Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 15:34:28 -0400 Lines: 18 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20150918151439.GA16455@chaz.gmail.com> <20150919203628.GA27872@chaz.gmail.com> <20150921094807.GA6229@chaz.gmail.com> Reply-To: chet.ramey@case.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1442864080 32419 208.118.235.17 (21 Sep 2015 19:34:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu Cc: Jilles Tjoelker , chet.ramey@case.edu To: Stephane Chazelas , bug-bash Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 In-Reply-To: <20150921094807.GA6229@chaz.gmail.com> X-Junkmail-Status: score=10/60, host=mpv5.cwru.edu X-Junkmail-Whitelist: YES (by domain whitelist at mpv1.tis.cwru.edu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 129.22.105.36 X-BeenThere: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com gnu.bash.bug:11528 On 9/21/15 5:48 AM, Stephane Chazelas wrote: > I'm not sure I prefer that WCE approach over WUE. Wouldn't it be > preferable that applications that intercept SIGINT/QUIT/TSTP for > anything other than clean-up before exit/suspend implement job > control themselves instead (like vi's :! should create a process > group and make that the foreground process group of the > terminal so pressing ^C in sh -c vi, :!sleep 10, only sends the > SIGINT to sleep)? The classic example is emacs remapping the terminal intr key to ^G and using SIGINT as its internal abort-command signal. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU chet@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/