[Asterisk-Dev] is this a bug?

[Steve Kann]

Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:

>Please don't post with HTML, **ESPECIALLY** in the -dev list.
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>On January 25, 2005 02:35 pm, Alexander Lopez wrote:
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>>^c. = interrupt
>>^d = eof
>>Etc
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>I've been using Unix for 10 years, I know what they mean.  I am saying that if 
>they *don't* cause * to crash without -c, why do they cause * to crash with 
>-c...  also why are they not being trapped and handled properly instead of 
>literally crashing the server.
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It's crashing in the process of shutting down.   Sure, this is a bug, 
but it doesn't seem like it's worth everyone getting so excited about 
it, and having this 25 message thread..

It's crashing on shutdown -- the end result is going to be the same, the 
process is going to exit; all calls are going to end, and no new calls 
are going to be accepted..

Regardless of whether the crash is fixed, it would be unadvisable to run 
asterisk as a foreground application except for testing, where not only 
will ^c cause it to go down, but so will the loss of the terminal (i.e. 
broken SSH connection, hungup serial line, or whatever your terminal is 
set up for).

-SteveK