(not) catching ^C in ghc-built application

[Hal Daume III]

> So, what should I use instead?

This is just a guess until someone who actually knows what they're talking
about answers, but...

In /ghc/rts/Schedule.c, there's a function:

void
interruptStgRts(void)
{
    interrupted    = 1;
    context_switch = 1;
}

which basically tells the rts to emit an interrupted message here:

    /* If we're interrupted (the user pressed ^C, or some other
     * termination condition occurred), kill all the currently running
     * threads.
     */
    if (interrupted) {
      IF_DEBUG(scheduler, sched_belch("interrupted"));
      deleteAllThreads();
      interrupted = rtsFalse;
      was_interrupted = rtsTrue;
    }

My guess is that if you override the interruptStgRts function as per
section 4.16.4 in the ghc users guide, you should be able to fix this
problem.  Simply overriding it with a function that *doesn't* set
interrupted to 1 should be fine (you shouldn't need to set context_switch
to 1 either).

Don't kill me if this doesn't work though :)

 - Hal