sup talk - Dec 2007 - death on keypress

Should ctrl-\ cause sup to crash for any particular reason?

-- 
Ian Taylor

Ian Taylor disturbed my sleep to write:
> Should ctrl-\ cause sup to crash for any particular reason?
In Bash, at least, this sends SIGQUIT (I believe) to the process in
the foreground; this tells it to quit and dump core.

HTH,
Hugh

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Saint Aardvark the Carpeted
http://saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com
Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth.
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Excerpts from Saint Aardvark the Carpeted''s message of Thu Dec 06
19:17:58 -0800 2007:
> Ian Taylor disturbed my sleep to write:
> > Should ctrl-\ cause sup to crash for any particular reason?
> 
> In Bash, at least, this sends SIGQUIT (I believe) to the process in
> the foreground; this tells it to quit and dump core.
Yep, this is not a Sup issue. Try it with top and any other curses
programs you have---they all abort.

-- 
William <wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net>