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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: tyler spivey <tspivey8@telus.net>
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Subject: Re: signals and applications
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tyler spivey wrote:
> ok - I hope I can get an answer:
> how come (under linux)
> i can use my favourite web browser and hit ^c (interrupt)
> and it will interrupt any network application,
> but under FreeBSD there are some operations that can't be interupted and just wait there?

Your application is trapping SIGINT, and Linux is doing the wrong
thing?

-- Terry

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