Re: signals, handeling the Control-D signal

[Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>]

Hi, Pete Ryland wrote:

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

... if you're reading "cooked" standard input. Readline doesn't; for
readline, ^D is just another character, and what happens when the user
pressed ^D is a matter of (for the user) keybinding and (for the
programmer) manual-reading.

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