[Asterisk-Dev] Re: is this a bug?

Tilghman Lesher tilghman at mail.jeffandtilghman.com
Tue Jan 25 16:31:13 MST 2005


On Tuesday 25 January 2005 15:49, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo wrote:
> Tilghman Lesher <tilghman at mail.jeffandtilghman.com> writes:
> > Anybody who runs a daemon process in the foreground under an xterm
> > window from Windows should expect Ctrl-C to interrupt their
> > process.
>
> OK, I'm not a Windows person -- I use UNIX.  When I run an
> application that gives me a command prompt with command line editing
> and special handling of control characters, I *don't* expect it to
> crash with a pointer referencing exception upon reception of ^C.  If
> that's what Windows applications do, fine.  It's not what you expect
> under UNIX.

The original poster wrote:
> I wanted to highlight some text and out of
> habit I did a ctrl-C. That reliably and consistantly
> shuts down Asterisk

That... is not... a bug.  Do you disagree?

While the invalid pointer part *IS* a bug, shutting down because he
pressed Ctrl-C is not a bug.  Do you disagree?

-- 
Tilghman



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