Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 11:12:55 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com> Cc: "Brett Glass" <brett@lariat.org>, "Studded" <Studded@gorean.org>, "bugs@FreeBSD.ORG" <bugs@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: No terminal echo after certain commands Message-ID: <199810211012.LAA01031@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 20 Oct 1998 18:57:51 EDT." <199810202258.SAA25216@laker.net>
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> On Tue, 20 Oct 1998 15:53:13 -0600, Brett Glass wrote:
>
> >No program should leave the console partially or completely disabled,
> >no matter how it exits. Sounds like this is a bug in "more"!
>
> Actually, Control-C is used by a user who specifically wants to exit
> RIGHT NOW (emergency exit) with a very short path thru any code that
> could hang. It is NOT meant as a non-emergency exit signal.
That doesn't excuse the fact that it mis-handles SIGINT. I would
expect SIGQUIT to exit without restoring the terminal, but SIGINT
should DTRT.
> In short, Studded is right, you are not.
I disagree. As it happens though, ``more'' behaves correctly under
-current and glancing through the code doesn't show up any reasons
why there might be a problem in either -stable or -current.
> Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes.
--
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org>
<http://www.Awfulhak.org>;
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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