Hi, --- MHR <mhullrich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 1:05 AM, CAI Qian <caiqian@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > If yum provides the feature to abandon an operation, users expect > to > > use it, report related bugs, and someone eventually could fix those > > bugs. It is also a feature which exists in some other package > tools. > > Otherwise, the document shall be added this information, says "The > > program will not response to CTRL-C. Please use kill(1) to > terminate > > the program". > > > > ^C is not a yum "feature," it is a "feature" of the shell and the > kernel. There is no guarantee that I have ever seen that says "This > will always work to stop a runaway a program." What it does is "This > will always send a SIGINT to the running program." There are lots > (hundreds? thousands? more?) of programs out there that trap SIGINTs > and do whatever they like with them, without any documentation at > all. > It is a feature that yum provides users to skip mirrors by hit CTRL-C once, and exit the program by hit CTRL-C twice. It is also a convention to exit command-line programs by hit CTRL-C from the usability point of view. Just like users expect to close a GUI window by click the cross button. Cai Qian > Also, be careful of your use of English words. "Shall" is an > imperative (command), not a request. Requests are not "shalls." > > Bottom line, like it or not, is if you use a free tool and don't like > it, don't use it. If you want to make requests for feature changes, > enhancements or to report bugs, do so politely using the right > mechanisms, which explicitly exclude jumping onto mailing lists about > the product and making demands. > > Maybe that wasn't what you had in mind, but your choice of words made > it seem so. Remember, we can't hear you, so any tone in your words > is > lost in print (or bits). > > HTH > > mhr > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum > _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
