Re: signals, handeling the Control-D signal

[Pete Ryland <pdr@pdr.cx>]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 05:18:06AM -0400, Barry Pollock wrote:
> I need to trap the Control-D signal long enough for my program to run its
> quit program when using readline. I get an error in the strcpy function
> when using readline.so. If i disable readline first and allow the memory
> to be freed properly, the Control -D exit is proper.

Ctrl-D is not a 'signal' as such, but simply will cause any reads from stdin
to report EOF.

Pete

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