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Re: Slightly offtpic: why svn stubbornly refuses to listen to ctrl-c?!?
- From: Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>
- To: Adam Butcher <adam at jessamine dot co dot uk>
- Cc: Paolo Carlini <paolo dot carlini at oracle dot com>, "'gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org'" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:57:05 +0000
- Subject: Re: Slightly offtpic: why svn stubbornly refuses to listen to ctrl-c?!?
- References: <4B50711D.3030506@oracle.com> <298ded56c17dd39ca764bd76e8f6f66f.squirrel@webmail.plus.net>
Adam Butcher wrote:
> On Fri, January 15, 2010 1:43 pm, Paolo Carlini wrote:
>> I mean, why a well designed application should refuse to listen to ctrl-c
>> when something goes wrong? Why every time for some reason it gets stuck,
>> I have to kill it from another shell? That's definitely annoying.
>>
> If you're on a posix-compatible have you tried using SIGQUIT (CTRL-\ or
> CTRL-4) instead of SIGINT?
Or kill -9 of course, but beware; Vincent LeFevre reported sandboxes
corrupted beyond anything 'svn cleanup' could repair in one of the links I
posted in another reply.
cheers,
DaveK