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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>,
	Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
Subject: Re: RFC: [PATCH] ignore SIGINT&QUIT while waiting for external command
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:07:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101019210753.GB32029@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3fww1lwqw.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

Jakub Narebski wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

>> -	sigchain_push(SIGINT, SIG_IGN);
>> -	sigchain_push(SIGQUIT, SIG_IGN);
>> +	if (the_child)
>> +		die("What?  _Two_ children?");
>> +	the_child = cmd;
>> +	sigchain_push(SIGINT, interrupted_with_child);
>> +	sigchain_push(SIGQUIT, interrupted_with_child);
>
> Please, don't do this.  It is almost as bad as error message as 
> "You don't exist.  Go away".

Hopefully it was clear that the behavior (erroring out) is as
unacceptable as the message.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-19 21:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-19  4:53 git subcommand sigint gotcha Joey Hess
2010-10-19  9:55 ` Dmitry Potapov
2010-10-19 11:59   ` RFC: [PATCH] ignore SIGINT&QUIT while waiting for external command Dmitry Potapov
2010-10-19 13:32     ` Jeff King
2010-10-19 13:40       ` Jeff King
2010-10-19 19:16         ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-19 19:50           ` Jeff King
2010-10-19 21:06           ` Jakub Narebski
2010-10-19 21:07             ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2010-10-19 16:31       ` Dmitry Potapov

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