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To: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer)
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Subject: Re: C-g, emacs and 2.2/3.0 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 27 Apr 1997 17:44:49 +0200."
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Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 00:11:05 +0800
From: Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>
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Martin Cracauer wrote:
[..]
> Sorry, I don't quite understand how these characters are to be
> processed and what the shell has to do with it. Isn't C-c a character
> that is "handled" by the system (shell, crt0 or whatever) and C-g is a
> character that is set up by the application itself?
> 
> Could someone explain? How and who is handling these and why are C-c
> and C-g related?

Because emacs changes the tty interrupt character to ^G.  So, potentially 
both the shell, emacs and perhaps the calling program (eg: crontab) see 
the SIGINT.

This is probably more a bug in system() or crontab with their signal/
process group handling.

Cheers,
-Peter