[fpc-pascal]CRT prevents break?

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Alan Mead wrote:

> I'm using "Free Pascal Compiler version 1.0.10 [2003/06/26] for i386"
> on Linux 2.4.7-10 and when I use the CRT unit, I cannot break a
> program with Control-C.  Even Control-Z doesn't stop the program's
> execution.  I have to kill it.  I've attached an example program
> (compile with "-dSCREWED_UP" to see the behavior I'm talking about).
>
>
> Is this a known issue?  Is there any work-around?  Sorry if this is
> in the manual, I don't see anything about this in the CRT
> documentation.

This is a 'known issue'. It's normal behaviour. AFAIK, CTRL-C and CTRL-Z
are normally handled by the shell. The CRT unit takes over the terminal,
preventing the shell from catching these keys. There is no work-around
except catching these keys yourself.

Michael.