Mark Klein writes:
> Stan writes:
> >In theory, control-Y should be exactly like control-C.
>
> >At startup of POSIX C programs, the main() does a call to XCONTRAP
> >...and when the child process of a shell terminates, the shell
> >is awakened and does another XCONTRAP.
>
> [snip]
>
> >OTOH, if your program doesn't start with a call to main()
> >*from the POSIX libraries*, then it may not be calling
> >XCONTRAP.
>
> Actually, this is on my to-do list for gcc since gcc's __main() doesn't
> currently use XCONTRAP. So, don't count of the above if you use gcc.

This would explain why my runaway or hung gcc-compiled programs are immune
to CTRL-Y.  ;-)
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