Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 10:21:31 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <199801041521.KAA26437@delorie.com>
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
CC: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <Pine.SUN.3.91.980104113339.11447H-100000@is> (message from Eli
	Zaretskii on Sun, 4 Jan 1998 11:34:02 +0200 (IST))
Subject: Re: djgpp v2.02 alpha 980101
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> We could always disable it by default (by making the QUIT key variable
> be zero).

Would Ctrl-@ trigger it, then?

> So it seems that we are looking for programs which do NOT switch stdin
> to binary mode, but still use Ctrl-\ for some functionality.  Does
> anybody know about such programs?

Any dos program that uses getchar() may be a candidate.

> Would asking about this on c.o.m.d. (to reach wider audience) be a
> good idea?

Yes.  We're looking for *dos* programs that use Ctrl-\ without being
careful.

> The reason I don't like having SIGQUIT disabled by default is that it
> will require DJGPP-specific code to switch it on in programs that do
> want to catch SIGQUIT differently than SIGINT (yes, I have examples of
> such programs).

Perhaps signal() and sigaction() could enable SIGQUIT the first time
someone sets a handler for it?