ezyang’s blog

the arc of software bends towards understanding

It’s just a longjmp to the left

And then a signal to the ri-i-i-ight. One notable wart with readline is that if you ^C during the prompt, nothing happens, and if you do a second ^C (and weren’t buggering around with the signal handlers) your entire program unceremoniously terminates. That’s not very nice! Fortunately, readline appears to be one of the rare […]

  • November 15, 2010