Re: running at boot time & signals

So what I'm doing is creating a Knoppix CD, so users can just turn on
the computer with the CD in the drive and it'll boot and run the
program automatically without them having to know anything about Linux
or do anything else. So waiting for a login and putting it in .profile
won't really work well.

Running from init, there are some choices a user makes and those work
fine with menus on stdin/stdout. It's just the signals that are
getting lost. But the lack of a controlling terminal does make sense.
Hmm...

I could try waiting for them to type something on stdin, but I'm afraid
that polling for input would slow things down a lot more than just
installing a signal handler.

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