Re: Interrupting GNU Octave

[Michael Goffioul]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 7:57 AM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have an application that runs GNU Octave and communicates with it
> via pipes. Then to interrupt it in case I want to stop the current
> processing it will send a SIGINT signal.
>
> So this worked fine in all platforms, but now recently I received a
> report saying that the new GNU Octave no longer accepts signals and
> instead uses something called "quint", which I couldn't find any
> information about in Google and that the system that I had developed
> therefore no longer works.
>
> Should SIGINT still work correctly in the latest GNU Octave? Or if
> not, what is the new procedure for interrupting it?

I assume there's a bit a mess up here. Quint was the original name of
the GUI that is now being developped within octave. This has nothing
to do with signal handling. AFAIK, using SIGINT should still work as
usual.

Michael.