Catching ^C and ^Z

[dcm]

In article <Sep.5.01.20.23.1990.18603 at sparky.rutgers.edu> gaynor at sparky.rutgers.edu (Silver) writes:
>deen at utopia.rutgers.edu:
>
>SunOS signal(3):
>> SIGKILL   9    kill (cannot be caught, blocked, or ignored)
>> SIGSTOP   17   stop (cannot be caught, blocked, or ignored)
>
>Therein lies the incentive to capture the characters before a shell can see
>them.


	Exactly what characters are you talking about?  At least on the
	various Un*ces I've been on, *all* keyboard generated signals are
	catchable.   Signal(SIG_IGN) has always done the job for me...

	Why complicate things with ioctls?
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	Craig Miller, contractor @ IBM AWD, Austin  (I don't speak for IBM)
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