Re: [GNUnet-developers] gnunet-go: Milestone #1 reached

[Bernd Fix]

On 9/20/19 11:31 AM, Bernd Fix wrote:
> It was correctly noted that using Ctrl-C to interrupt the running
> service (if started as a foreground process) does not work in all cases.
> This is due to the intrinsics of the Go runtime (see
> https://github.com/golang/go/issues/21905 for this) and unlikely to be
> fixable in user code.
> 
> This might be annoying as normal GNUnet services can be terminated that
> way, but I consider it acceptable for a program designed to run as a
> background process. Sending signals (SIGTERM, SIGINT) to the process
> works fine, using SIGKILL is discouraged as may leave remnants (socket
> files) behind that need to be removed manually.

Mea culpa - what a stupid mistake... The Ctrl-C issue is not related to
what I thought it was (Go runtime problem, had that issue in other
projects before), but to malformed switch clauses in signal handling.

I have corrected the error in the gnunet-go repository.

Cheers, Bernd.