Re: Reassigning VINTR Keystrokes

["Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>]

Hi Craig,

Apologies in advance if this response is not what you're looking for.
It is, however, one avenue which you can try and is to your benefit if
you need to follow-up with a post to this list again.

b20 is so old that many on the list may not even know what it is! ;-)
Signal handling has changed allot since those days.  Its possible that
you may see better behavior in this area if you run the current release.
Perhaps you want to try that?  If so, go to www.cygwin.com and click on
"Install Now!".  Take every package just so you're sure you're properly
configured for the tasks you need and see if the results of your tests
are better.  Not that we aren't sympathetic to your problem but this
list really needs to focus on improving the current product.  We just 
don't have the resources to resolve issues in out-dated versions.  If
you do try the current version though, someone on this list may be able
to help you if you still run into difficulties.

Thanks and good luck,

Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
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At 12:15 PM 6/29/2001, Craig Thomas wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>Before I begin asking for help with a problem I've been having, I just wanted to let everyone know that Cygwin has been an amazing tool 
>in helping port a large linguistic analysis tool (45,000+ lines) from a Solaris system to Windows 98. The software was developed 
>orginally using a PDP-11 in machine code and eventually was re-written in C around 1980. In the mid 90's the linguistic portion of the 
>code became substantially more robust and the idea was to port the code over to a DOS/Windows based machine. Traditionally porting this 
>software to a PC has meant rewriting most of the modules involved with I/O. Thanks to Cygwin, the changes to code were extremely minimal 
>with only cosmetic changes needed. Hats off to all the developers and users who have made this software a powerful development tool.
>
>Now on to the problem at hand. The problem I'm currently having is remapping the key which generates a VINTR signal from CTRL-C to 
>something else. Under a Solaris system, the code looks something like this:
>
>/* Global variables */
>struct termios oldintrps, newintrps;
>
>
>/********************************************************/
>/*                  I N I T E R M                       */
>/********************************************************/
>/*                                                      */
>/* This procedure modifies the various protocols which  */
>/* control communications between UNIX and the terminal */
>/* Existing protocols are preserved to allow them to be */
>/* restored on exit.                                    */
>/*                                                      */
>/********************************************************/
>
>initerm()
>{
>      extern struct termios oldintrps, newintrps;
>
>      char * tempstring;
>
>      cbreak();
>      noecho();
>      nonl();
>      intrflush(stdscr,FALSE);
>      keypad(stdscr,FALSE);
>
>      /* make two copies of the structure containing the communications
>      attributes, one to change, the other for subsequent restoration */
>      tcgetattr(TERMOUT1, &oldintrps);
>      tcgetattr(TERMOUT1, &newintrps);
>
>      /* The VINTR key below is change from ^C to ^_ */
>      newintrps.c_cc[VINTR] = '\037'; 
>      newintrps.c_cc[VQUIT] = 0;
>      newintrps.c_cc[VSTART] = 0;    
>      newintrps.c_cc[VSTOP] = 0;
>      newintrps.c_cc[VEOL] = 0;
>      newintrps.c_cc[VSUSP] = '\001';
>      #ifndef WIN95
>          newintrps.c_cc[VDSUSP] = 0;
>      #endif
>      newintrps.c_cc[VREPRINT] = 0;
>      newintrps.c_cc[VDISCARD] = 0;
>      newintrps.c_cc[VWERASE] = 0;
>      newintrps.c_cc[VLNEXT] = 0;
>
>      /* install the modified attributes */
>      tcsetattr(TERMOUT1, TCSANOW, &newintrps);
>}
>
>As you can see, the VINTR key is changed from CTRL-C to CTRL-_ instead. In our program, we want the keypress CTRL-_ to generate a SIGINT 
>which is handled by our SIGINT handler. CTRL-C we just want to treat as normal input (ie. generate character #3). The following code is 
>what handles input to our program:
>
>int ivigetc(void)
>{
>     return( (progstate == ACTIVE) ? getc( iviinput ) : getchar() );
>}
>
>Under Cygwin, I wrote a small program to test remapping the CTRL-C key, one that could be ported back to solaris, the program is as 
>follows:
>
>(thomas@minstrel:~/vinci_source/temp)[22]$ cat inttest.c
>/* I N C L U D E S ********************/
>
>#ifdef CYGWIN
>   #include <ncurses.h>
>   #include <ncurses/term.h>
>#else
>   #include <curses.h>
>   #include <term.h>
>#endif
>
>#include <termios.h>
>#include <signal.h>
>#include <stdio.h>
>
>/* D E F I N E S **********************/
>
>#define TERMOUT1 1
>
>/* G L O B A L S **********************/
>struct termios oldintrps, newintrps;
>
>/* S U B R O U T I N E S **************/
>void initerm( void )
>{
>   /* Grab copies of the current communications attributes */
>   tcgetattr( TERMOUT1, &oldintrps );
>   tcgetattr( TERMOUT1, &newintrps );
>
>   /* Remap VINTR key from ^C to ^_ */
>   newintrps.c_cc[VINTR] = '\037';
>
>   /* Install the modified attributes */
>   tcsetattr( TERMOUT1, TCSANOW, &newintrps );
>}
>
>/**************************************/
>
>void restoreterm( void )
>{
>   /* Restore our old interrupt handler */
>   tcsetattr( TERMOUT1, TCSANOW, &oldintrps );
>}
>
>/**************************************/
>
>void inthandler( int unused )
>{
>   /* Print a message to the effect that an interrupt occurred. A
>      bad thing to do in an interrupt handler, but we just want to
>      demonstrate that the handler was entered */
>   printf( "The SIGINT signal has been generated.\n" );
>}
>
>/* M A I N   P R O G R A M ************/
>int main( void )
>{
>   /* -- VARIABLE DECLARATION -- */
>   char c;  /* Used to store input from the keyboard */
>   struct termios currentintrps; /* Used to store the current interrupts */
>
>   /* Initalize the new keyboard mappings */
>   initerm();
>
>   /* Install the SIGINT interrupt handler */
>   signal( SIGINT, inthandler );
>
>   /* Print our character settings */
>   tcgetattr( TERMOUT1, &currentintrps );
>   printf( "Current VINTR key: %d\n", currentintrps.c_cc[VINTR] );
>
>   /* Loop and output the keystrokes the user entered */
>   while( c != 'q' )
>   {
>     printf( "=> " );
>     /* Get a character from the keyboard */
>     c = getchar();
>     /* Tell the user what key they pressed */
>     printf( "\nCharacter #%d was pressed\n", c );
>   }
>
>   /* Restore the old terminal settings */
>   restoreterm();
>
>   /* Print the value of the settings */
>   tcgetattr( TERMOUT1, &currentintrps );
>   printf( "Current VINTR key: %d\n", currentintrps.c_cc[VINTR] );
>}
>
>I compiled under cygwin B20 by doing a "gcc -DCYGWIN inttest.c -lncurses" and ran it. Output was as follows (the CTRL-C in brackets 
>means that I typed the CTRL-C key):
>
>--------
>Current VINTR key: 31
>=> g
>
>Character #103 was pressed
>=>
>Character #10 was pressed
>=> (CTRL-C)The SIGINT signal has been generated.
>
>Character #-1 was pressed
>=> q
>
>Character #113 was pressed
>Current VINTR key: 3
>-------
>
>I then compiled under Solaris by doing a "cc inttest.c -lcurses" and ran it. Output was as follows:
>
>-------
>Current VINTR key: 31
>=> g
>
>Character #103 was pressed
>=> 
>Character #10 was pressed
>=> ^C
>
>Character #3 was pressed
>=> 
>Character #10 was pressed
>=> ^_The SIGINT signal has been generated.
>
>Character #-1 was pressed
>=> q
>
>Character #113 was pressed
>Current VINTR key: 3
>-------
>
>As you can see here, the CTRL-C key still generates a SIGINT signal under Cygwin even though we remapped the key. I appologize for the 
>length of the message, but I wanted to include test cases here. I also appologize if this issue has already been addressed. I've been 
>searching for about 2 days now on the mailing list archives and have seen some talk of CTRL-C SIGINT handling but have had no luck in 
>finding any specific code or fixes. Anyone have any thoughts on this? Any input would be greatly appreciated!
>
>Thanks,
>Craig
>
>-------------------------
>Craig Thomas
>thomas@cs.queensu.ca
>7cmt@qlink.queensu.ca
>-------------------------
>
>
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