mojo@kepler.UUCP (Morris Jones) (11/26/85)
I've been porting the recently posted "chat" program to 4.2bsd, and
as we all know, 4.2 does not terminate a system call on a signal.
I'm running into the problem that people who ^C (intr) out of the
program are sometimes left with a process that runs forever, despite
hanging up, quit signals, etc. Kill -9 works.
My theory is that the intr occurs during a getchar(), during a read
from the console, and the read is sticking around refusing to die.
If my trap for intr doesn't do an exit(), but merely sets a flag and
returns, what is the best way for me to force the getchar() to
terminate and return to the program?
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Mojo
... Morris Jones, MicroPro Product Development
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