[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #54444] Octave CLI doesn't terminate at sigterm until <ENTER> pressed at prompt

[Olaf Till]

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #54444 (project octave):

According to current libinterp/corefcn/sighandlers.cc, this seems to be due to
a deliberate change -- signals for which the default action is to terminate
the program are now handled by generic_sig_handler(), meaning that terminating
the program is delayed until respond_to_pending_signals() is called, which
again is only called by octave_quit().

I think this change is problematic. In a resting Octave instance,
octave_quit() is not called. So now it is not possible any more to kill a
resting Octave instance 'from outside', except with a fatal signal for which
the Octave instance can't perform any clean-up actions.

The necessity for killing a resting Octave instance 'from outside', while
still enabling clean-up, is given for Octave servers of the 'parallel'
package. But I think it is also a generally desirable feature.

@jwe: What should be done here?

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