Re: SBCL 2.3.11: Core dump after typing Control-4

[email protected] Sun, 22 Jun 2025 18:06:08 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.steel-bank.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] writes:

> Douglas Katzman <[email protected]> writes:
>
>>
>> You could confirm this theory that it's the tty settings
>> by running anything other than SBCL and pressing the same
>> keystroke.
>>
>> $ cat # and press the alleged sigquit key now
>>
>> ^\Quit (core dumped)
>>
>> $ stty -a speed 9600 baud; rows 67; columns 128; line = 0;
>> intr = ^C; quit = ^\ [etc etc]
>
> You have identified the cause.  Is there a prescribed method
> for preventing SBCL from recognizing this key combination as
> a quit signal, or can this only be avoided by some setting
> outside of SBCL?

For example, the following turns off the quit signal.
Should the SBCL manual describe this behavior, or is there
some other preferred method?

   /bin/stty quit '' && sbcl

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