From: gabriele renzi <rff_rff@...>
Date: 2004-10-10T11:19:40+09:00
Subject: Re: How to exit properly with a signal?

Bob Proulx ha scritto:

> How are signals properly handled in ruby?  (I am new to ruby but
> experienced with C, sh and perl.)
> 
> Run, then interrupt it while it is in the sleep:
> 
>   sh -c 'sleep 10' ; echo $?
> 
>   130
> 
> However, this same script in ruby is trapped by the ruby default
> signal handler.
> 
>   ruby -e 'sleep 10' ; echo $?
>   -e:1:in `sleep': Interrupt      from -e:1
>   1
> 

I guess you want:
trap("INT")  { puts "interrupted" }