Am Freitag, den 23.02.2007, 15:24 -0500 schrieb Tony Nelson: > At 2:28 PM +0100 2/23/07, Piotr Baranowski wrote: > >Alan Cox wrote(a): > >> On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 10:17:23AM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > >>> I disagree - All programs should immediately terminate upon "Ctrl-C". > >>> Switching to a different mirror should be done by any arbitrary key. > >> > >> Someone please fix emacs to terminate immediately on ctrl-C then ;) > >> > >> Very large numbers of programs override ^C to be an internal interrupt, > >> including things like ftp. Others specifically ignore it (try using ssh > >> without that) > > > >I think we can accept such weirdness of some applications. > > > >Most people will understand WHY ^c is overriden in ssh for example. > > > >For me after 10 years of linux experience it was great mistery why a hell > >does yum override ^c. > ... > > Yum does not override Ctl-Ç. RPM does. Look at the RPM source, say > rpmsq.c. RPM does not block the signals, but rather saves them and if a > signal has been caught, terminates with extreme prejudice at the end of > whatever it was doing. Thus, signals are not processed immediately and > always terminate RPM's operation. > > Not to start any wars here, but I wrote a yum plugin for FC5 (and just > updated it for FC6, laziness on my part) that provides, among other things, > sane Ctl-C handling (during downloading) in a way I believe safe for RPM. > <http://georgeanelson.com/stablemirror.htm> > -- > ____________________________________________________________________ > TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> > Err.. wasn't this fixed recently, so that ^C exits rather than switches mirror? -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
