On 01/17/18 06:50, Geoff Winkless wrote:
> Having said all that, has anyone suggested grabbing and writing out
> using the "stty quit" value? That appears to work whatever level
> you're at, readline-or-not, mid-line or not. It wasn't even something
> I was aware of.
Well, the usual use of SIGQUIT is to abort a process while generating
a core dump so it can be post-mortem debugged, and the abort is immediate
without any exit hooks in the process having a chance to execute, so
maybe it isn't a habit we would want to inculcate for general use.
-Chap