Re: [PATCH 0/7] TTY Keyboard Status Request

[Rob Landley]

On 6/9/19 3:56 PM, Arseny Maslennikov wrote:
> This is similar to SIGWINCH, which is default-ignored as well: if the
> terminal width/height changes (like when a terminal emulator window is
> resized), its foreground pgrp gets a surprise signal as well, and the
> processes that don't care about WINCH (and thus have default
> disposition) do not get confused.
> E.g. 'strace cat' demonstrates this quite clearly.

Once upon a time suspending pipelines with ctrl-z broke stuff all the time due
to zero length reads being interpreted as EOF. These days I don't see that so
much anymore, I think SA_RESTART is the default now?

Rob