ncurses and SIGINFO

[BenV]

Heia,

A friend recently pointed my towards the in my opinion useful
signal SIGINFO, which gives some status info in a bunch of FreeBSD
programs like fsck. (I just started out with FreeBSD ;))
This signal is normally sent by pressing ctrl-t, depending 
on your setup of course.

Anyway, we were hacking a bit through the systat sources to try to make
it do something useful on SIGINFO, but we ran into a little problem:
systat uses getch() to fetch it's keyboard input.
Since signals like SIGINT come through as a signal, I simply added a signal
handler for SIGINFO, compiled it, and: nothing happens. :)
Adding a keyboard event for ctrl-t did fix it, so it seems that curses 
completely ignores the whole SIGINFO deal. (sending the signal through
kill also works, so the handler code was ok).

Now my question:
Is this intentional? If so, can anyone tell me a portable way of determining
the siginfo/status key?

Thanks for reading.

Greetings,

BenV
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