[147224] trunk/base/src/pextlib1.0/system.c

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Thu Mar 31 09:01:24 PDT 2016


On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Rainer Müller <raimue at macports.org> wrote:

> A better way could be to handle SIGINT/SIGQUIT in a custom handler and
> on reception of a signal, we would kill the child process and return the
> error {POSIX SIG SIGINT} as result of SystemCmd. However, I am unsure
> how we would force the child to terminate and if this can be done reliably.
>

Seems to me you want an altered version of the old way: instead of printing
a message, set an "interrupted by user" flag and resume waiting for the
child, then ignore the child exit and return your "interrupted by user"
status.

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