Adopey.119
net.news.b
utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!unc!dopey.smb
Tue Mar  2 00:06:47 1982
signal handling bugs
readnews doesn't do what I'd like with signals.

More specifically, signals are ignored too much of the time, or are caught
but the wrong action taken.  For example, if I do 'readnews -M', I can't
interrupt out of it.  And 'readnews -p' is effectively uninterruptable; if
I hit INT, it skips to the next article.  *Not* nice....

Perhaps more seriously, the 4.1BSD job control signals aren't ignored
in critical sections.  I've used this to advantage to terminate some of
those 'readnews' commands I mentioned earlier, but I am nervous about
clobbering my .newsrc file.

I don't have any fixes for these problems; my experience with B netnews
is only slightly longer than Jay's.  Also, I'm never at ease applying
fixes that appear so soon; I'm not even comfortable with the fix I sent
out.  Should mail perhaps be used?  (Sorry, Mark....)

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