Re: [Bug-readline] [PATCH] Gnuplot on macOS does not suspend by Control-z

[Chet Ramey]

On 11/21/17 7:53 AM, Rin Okuyama wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Gnuplot on macOS does not suspend by Control-z in its command line.
> Please find the details below and attached patch.

Does GNUplot install a handler for SIGTSTP or ignore it? The behavior
you describe, in the absence of any other changes, sounds like something
sets the DSUSP character to ^Z.

> At the moment, readline does not disable VSUSP, and expect SIGTSTP to
> be appropriately sent by the tty driver. However, unfortunately, it
> does not work on macOS.

It must be something specific to GNUplot, since the simple readline test
programs handle ^Z as expected when run on MacOS.


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