[Yum] suggestion: CTRL-C should immediately stop yum

[Adam Monsen]

Yeeee ha!

Thanks.

On 9/12/06, Menno Smits <menno-yum at freshfoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Adam,
>
> Adam Monsen wrote:
> > I have a suggestion for the command-line yum client: CTRL-C should cause
> > the program to immediately stop.
> >
> > Most other command-line programs behave this way. I found on some other
> > mailing list that holding down CTRL-C causes yum to spit out the message
> > "Exiting on user cancel", and return exit code 130. This works, but is
> > somewhat inconvenient.
> >
> > Currently (I'm using 2.6.1-0.fc5) yum appears to try and switch mirrors
> > if CTRL-C is pressed or a SIGINT is sent to the yum process. Perhaps
> > SIGUSR1 or something could be used to forcibly switch mirrors.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
>
> The CTRL-C misbehaviour is caused by the rpm API taking control of the
> handlers for termination signals such as SIGINT. I've fixed the problem
> in the latest Yum versions (CVS). Yum now only has the rpmdb open when
> strictly necessary so that it can handle signals properly itself.
>
> In the new version, CTRL-C once during downloads causes a mirror switch;
> twice in quick succession causes termination. A single CTRL-C at other
> times should just quit as normal.
>
> Menno
>
>
>
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Adam Monsen
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