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From: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: Re: Killing Processes
Message-ID: <20947@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 25 Apr 91 15:46:49 GMT
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In article <41619@cup.portal.com> FelineGrace@cup.portal.com (Dana B Bourgeois) writes:
>Ummmm, Andy?  Why *shouldn't* Shells accept BREAKs or ^C?  I can think
>of several places where that would be very convenient but none, offhand,
>where it would be a problem.  What am I missing?  At least have the shell
>accept the BREAK signal.  Surely that is specific enough that it can't
>be mixed up with valid commands.
>
>Dana Bourgeois @ cup.portal.com


I can't think of a real reason other than that they never have in the
past, and I'd hesitate to put such a change in without extensive
testing to make sure no unpleasant side effects on background tasks
gets in.  A means would also have to be developed to ignore control-C
typed by the user, but respond to the BREAK command (by shutting down)

			andy
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