SAW should respond to SIGINFO #2143
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topics: error-messages
Issues involving the messages SAW produces on error
type: feature request
Issues requesting a new feature or capability
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There's a little-known/little-used feature of Unix ttys where typing ^T sends SIGINFO to the foreground process, which is a request for it to tell you what it's doing.
It's helpful for terminal-based things that can be long-running to respond by printing what they're doing; this is often sufficient to decide whether they're making progress or not and whether to kill them.
It may be difficult to implement this usefully for SAW because of the complicated and messy rules about what you can do in a signal handler, but if it's reasonably feasible it would be nice to have.
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