Branching for 2.4

[Joshua Root]

On 2016-12-11 00:01 , Rainer Müller wrote:
> On 2016-12-10 13:34, Joshua Root wrote:
>> I think master is in pretty good shape now to branch off release-2.4.
>> Releasing a beta could then follow shortly.
>>
>> Are there any important or low-risk changes that should get in beforehand?
>
> Interrupting with Ctrl-C will now often throw the exception up to the
> port client, where this will then generate a huge stacktrace. This could
> be quite confusing and is different from the behavior in 2.3 where
> port(1) just stopped without any output.
>
> I don't think this output will help much. We should catch the errorCode
> {POSIX SIG SIGINT} in the port client around process_cmd and
> process_command_files and hide this stacktrace unless debug was enabled.

Done.

- Josh