[Rcpp-devel] Interrupts in compiled code.

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| > | Actually, the interrupt seems to be caught only the first time I enter "foo". When I call it the second time from the prompt, no handler is activated -- I'm not sure why.
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| > Code such as the one shown below was only ever meant to catch one interrupt
| > signal such as Ctrl-C for abort. Upon catching the signal I usually wind the
| > program down.  So I never tried what you are attempting here: to actually be
| > "reentrant" and catch the same signal multiple times.  Let us know how it
| > goes and what you find :)
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| Do you mean that this pattern only applies to stand-alone programs?

That was the context in which I used them.  

I'd think one should be able to generalize this but I haven't done that
myself.

Dirk

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