Bug 83707

Summary:	Give notice when signals are blocked.
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Public Beta	Reporter:	David Balažic <david.balazic>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Version:	phoebe	CC:	mitr
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Description David Balažic 2003-02-07 10:57:13 UTC

Due to to people kill-9'ing rpm when it waits with signals blocked ( see for 
example bug #73097 ), I suggest using a signal handler that prints a notice and 
continues, so people would not use kill -9 right away.

Something like "rpm is currently busy doing this-and-this, please wait a monent"
or whatever is more informative.

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2003-02-07 20:29:34 UTC

Nobody wants to know when signals are blocked. What is
desired is functionality, not ever more obscure and
arcane messages.

Comment 2 David Balažic 2003-02-08 09:26:30 UTC

I think you misunderstood me.
The message should not be printed alwys, but only if a blocked signal is 
received.

Example, current behavior :
 - rpm is running, signals are blocked, no appareng disc activity
 - user : "hmm, weird, I'll stop it."
 - user press ctrl-c
 - user : "Uh, nothing happened. It is hung. I'll kill -9 it."

Example, proposed behavior :
 - rpm is running, signals are blocked, no appareng disc activity
 - user : "hmm, weird, I'll stop it."
 - user press ctrl-c
 - rpm : "Hey! I'm busy doing stuff"
 - user : "Oh, in that case I'll wait a bit longer"

Comment 3 Jeff Johnson 2003-02-08 15:38:52 UTC

The signal handlers are localed in rpmlib which is
used in graphical contexts where there is no guarantee
that output is possible, let alone desireable.