Re: dhcp idea

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

barbier@linuxfr.org (Denis Barbier) writes:

> On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 11:04:18PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> [...]
> > If you're going to change cdebconf -- which this would require -- it
> > would be more general to add a 'cancel' button to progress bars, and
> > arrange for it to somehow do something useful.
> 
> It seems doable, but how can scripts be told that this key has been
> pressed?  The only solution I found is to have PROGRESS SET returns a
> non-zero value, which can then be caught by callers.  Other ideas?

Send a signal to the process.

MfG
        Goswin