On 7/19/16 6:42 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> Thanks Chet. I know Python and R have a similar model. I think the
> question is not whether it is OK for Readline to take over the
> application's signal handling, but whether it was OK for Readline to
> catch signals and then forward them to the application - as it was
> doing before 6.3.
Sigh. This is a different question. Readline still does this, as it
always has. It was not OK to do cleanup and other processing in a signal
handler, so Readline does this now from a function that is not called in a
signal handling context.
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU [email protected] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
_______________________________________________
Bug-readline mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-readline
