Re: [PATCH] perf tools: Make Ctrl-C stop processing on TUI

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> wrote:

> It was inconvenient that perf cannot be quit with SIGINT during
> processing samples on TUI especially for large data files.
> 
> This was because the first argument of SLang_init_tty(), abort_char,
> being 0.  The manual says it's the ascii value of the control
> character that will be used to generate the interrupt signal [1].
> Passing -1 means to use the default value (Ctrl-C).
> 
> [1] http://jedsoft.org/slang/doc/html/cslang-6.html#ss6.1
> 
> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
> ---
>  tools/perf/ui/tui/setup.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/ui/tui/setup.c b/tools/perf/ui/tui/setup.c
> index b77e1d771363..60d1f29b4b50 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/ui/tui/setup.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/ui/tui/setup.c
> @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ int ui__init(void)
>  	err = SLsmg_init_smg();
>  	if (err < 0)
>  		goto out;
> -	err = SLang_init_tty(0, 0, 0);
> +	err = SLang_init_tty(-1, 0, 0);
>  	if (err < 0)
>  		goto out;

Will this change the current Ctrl-C behavior in other places in any way?

Right now Ctrl-C behavior is pretty sensible: it essentially means instant abort 
of whatever was done, i.e. stepping back a level in 'perf top', exit the app if 
it's done at the highest level. I hope that's preserved! :-)

Thanks,

	Ingo