[hacknews] single-user interrupts

henry (02/08/83)

There have been persistent problems when doing single-user operations
(backups, reboots) which seem (very tentatively) to be associated with
the unfortunate proximity of the RUBOUT key to the RETURN key on the
console terminal.  In an attempt to reduce these hassles, I've diddled
the software so that the backups and the reboot procedure set the
"interrupt" character to be control-C instead.  Both procedures announce
the change as they make it, to be as explicit as possible about what's
going on.