On Aug 25, 2015 7:04 AM, "Guillaume Benoit" <guillaume@manjaro.org> wrote:

Hi, working on a GUI frontend for libalpm, I noticed that download process

lakes for an internal interrupt mechanism. Download cancellation is only handled by catching SIGINT signal.

I think it would be a benefit for libalpm to have more correct download interrupt mechanism like trans_interrupt handle package transaction cancellation.

Could you explain more about why signal handling is non-ideal? What would trans_interrupt do differently? What problems does this solve?

I'm already working on a patch and I would like to know if you would interested in adding this feature to libalpm. Regards.

Without knowing more details on what you're proposing, its hard to say.