Re: UNIX signal handling

["Daniel Solaz" <dsolaz sistelcom com>]

Owen Taylor wrote:
>* The reason that it was originally added, I think, was to
>  destroy shared memory segments that were created for X images.
>  This isn't as important now, since GTK+ when possible uses
>  IPC_RMID to do a deferred destroy when the last program
>  detaches, but there are, I think, still programs, where
>  without gdk_signal() control-C'ing out of a GTK program
>  will leak shared memory segments.
I don't know much about IPC.  When would pressing Ctrl-C really be a
problem?
-Daniel