Re: [Bug-readline] Does _rl_interrupt_immediately still need to exist?

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/21/19 11:46 AM, Pedro Alves wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking at readline's signal handling code, and I noticed that 
> in the current master, the _rl_interrupt_immediately variable is
> never set anymore.
> 
> I see that _rl_interrupt_immediately used to be set around
> rl_attempted_completion_function in complete.c in older releases,
> but that signal handling was replaced with the safer
> RL_SIG_RECEIVED check in the mainline code.
> 
> Is there a reason the _rl_interrupt_immediately variable still
> exists, then?  Could rl_signal_handler be simplified, like:

It will go in the next version. I have been giving it time to allow
applications that use it (incorrectly), but you are correct that the
mainline code no longer uses it.

Chet
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