On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 14:37 +0100, Thomas M Steenholdt wrote: > 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. > > > > There is no clear reason for it to behave like that. > > > > My suggestion ? > > ^m and a startup message like: > > > > "If you want to switch from one mirror to another press CTRL+M" > > > > regards > > > > That would probably also help the fact, that (last i checked) ^C does > switch mirrors, but it also prevents anything useful from happening at > the end of the download process. I.e. yum -y update would download > packages, ^C cause it to switch mirrors and keep downloading, but the > expected update at the end of the download is skipped. > > /Thomas > /+1 Switch mirror doesn't always work. BTW, there's an assortments of bugs about it. [1] - Gilboa [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?product=Fedora +Core&component=yum&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=CLOSED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&bug_status=MODIFIED&bug_status=ON_DEV&bug_status=ON_QA&bug_status=FAILS_QA&bug_status=RELEASE_PENDING&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=Ctrl-C -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
