[fpc-pascal] Suppressing ^C signal from stdin

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Sven Barth wrote:
> On 01.01.2014 20:48, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>> When reading characters from a program's stdin using fpRead(), what's
>> the best way of suppressing ^C so that it doesn't raise SIGTERM or
>> whatever? I want to be able to handle signals indicating e.g. a UPS
>> power-failure message, but not to get trivial stuff from the keyboard.
>>
>> Platform is predominantly Linux, possibly also Solaris and one of the
>> BSDs. Anybody porting the program to Windows will have to do their own
>> dirty work :-)
>>
> 
> For Unix systems you could hook the SIGINT signal:

[Slaps head] ^C is SIGINT, not SIGTERM :-) Still, I've just been looking 
at that siginfo structure and it's going to be interesting to see what 
one can find out from it.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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