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Re: looking for consistent C-c trap behavior

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On 4/18/20 6:45 PM, gentoo_eshoes@tutanota.com wrote:
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> Apr 18, 2020, 23:41 by gentoo_eshoes@tutanota.com:
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>> On another note, I naively tried to patch out the POSIX requirement, for my own/local_use puposes but had no effect:
>> in this code
>> +  /* posix mode SIGINT during read -e. We only get here if SIGINT is trapped. */
>> +  if (posixly_correct && this_shell_builtin == read_builtin && sig == 2)
>> +    {
>> +      last_command_exit_value = 128|SIGINT;
>> +      throw_to_top_level ();
>> +    }
>> by removing "posixly_correct &&" from above. I've no idea why that would have no effect, a bit stumped.
>> I've even tried with a prior 'make clean'. The only explanation is that some other code that happens only during `POSIXly correct` mode is affecting this somehow...
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> regarding the above, I stand corrected: it does indeed have effect but only on 'read -e' (just as the comment states), that bash_event_hook() function isn't entered for 'read -p' which to me was surprising, yet no doubt correct(I'm guessing).

The hook functions are a way for readline to communicate with calling
applications when signals or other events happen, since you can't really
do very much in a signal handler, so they're not called when not using
readline.

> The code that allows 'read -p' to be interrupted when posixly_correct, must then be somewhere else, I shall keep lookin', yet I fear I might not find it :-"

Look in read_builtin() and the calls to various zread* functions there.


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