On 3/21/19 11:46 AM, Pedro Alves wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking at readline's signal handling code, and I noticed that
> in the current master, the _rl_interrupt_immediately variable is
> never set anymore.
>
> I see that _rl_interrupt_immediately used to be set around
> rl_attempted_completion_function in complete.c in older releases,
> but that signal handling was replaced with the safer
> RL_SIG_RECEIVED check in the mainline code.
>
> Is there a reason the _rl_interrupt_immediately variable still
> exists, then? Could rl_signal_handler be simplified, like:
It will go in the next version. I have been giving it time to allow
applications that use it (incorrectly), but you are correct that the
mainline code no longer uses it.
Chet
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