Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 19:36:00 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Paul Derbyshire <ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: SIGQUIT: What's it good for, anyway?
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On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, I wrote:

> On 14 Jan 1998, Paul Derbyshire wrote:
> 
> > What is Yet Another Interrupt Key good for anyway? Already there are ^C
> > and ^Break with SIGINT; now 2.02 proposes to add ^\ and SIGQUIT.
> 
> Let's say you have a program which talks to the user through an
> interpreter, and lets them type procedures, or load them from a file, and
> then run them.

That was a complex example.  A much simpler case where you might want 
SIGQUIT is when you need a way to abort a program which has installed a 
SIGINT handler and won't exit no matter what you do.