Re: Catching Ctrl-C SIGINT

[Christopher Broeg <broeg@astro.uni-jena.de>]

Martin Dowie wrote:
> Christopher Broeg wrote:
> [snip]
> 
>>Here the problem:
>>I do get the message
>>"Interrupt SIGINT caught. sending signal "
>>but the signal_public procedure never manages to send the signal. I
>>don't know why. If I call the signal_public procedure from test1 it
>>works, but is of course useless.
>>
>>Can you give me any hints on what I am doing wrong? I am lost.
>>
>>Maybe there is a better way to react upon the interrupt? But still I
>>am wondering why my solution is not working.
> 
> 
> Not a good idea to call "Put_Line" from a protected object as it is a
> (potentially blocking call).
> 
> Take out the "Put_Lines" and increment an unprotected unsigned integer
> instead and from within a task poll say @1Hz and look for the integer
> changing - i.e. try an look for a side-effect of the protected object doing
> its job. You can always remove this task once you're convinced all is ok.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> -- Martin
> 
> 
> 

Thanx for the answer. I'll give it a try.

-- Chris