ansok@spp3.UUCP (Gary Ansok) (02/11/86)
[] Check this box if you want $1 to go to the Line-Eater Extermination Fund I have been requested to look into modifying dbx to ignore interrupts that are typed during long typeouts -- 'where' from deeply nested routines, for example--so that ^C can be used as an interrupt to these long typeouts. The problem is that I want the *child* process to ignore the interrupts depending on what the *parent* is doing. (And of course, they both get the interrupt signal.) ^O does throw away the output, but it can still take quite a bit it time to finish creating and discarding the output. The tactic I'm looking into is setting a flag in the parent's interrupt routine (to whether or not this interrupt should be ignored) and then ignoring the interrupt when it comes back from the child. How to do that, I'm a little fuzzy on--I may simply re-run the last command line. Has any one done this before and can provide me with modifications (or even just suggestions?) We're running on a Pyramid running the 4.2bsd/SysV mix in the ucb universe. Thanks in advance, Gary Ansok {ihnp4,decvax,ucbvax,...}!trwrb!trwspp!spp3!ansok