control-C and yum update

[Paul Allen Newell]

Chris Smart wrote:
> 2010/1/4 Paul Allen Newell <pnewell at cs.cmu.edu>:
>   
>> I though "control-C" was an immediate kill of whatever was running and was
>> wondering why yum didn't stop when I tried to kill it.
>>
>>     
>
> It's an interrupt, which could be blocked or it might be on a
> different queue. You should be able to background yum and kill it
> straight away:
>
> Ctrl+z
> kill %1
>
> -c
>
>   
Chris:

Got it ... this makes sense as there are jobs I run that I have to ps 
and then kill. If yum blocks until first "y/N", it makes sense.

Thanks,
Paul