Probably MoarVM-to-blame Windows ^D/^Z issue

[jnthn]

These should probably exit, but don't.

C:\Program Files\ConEmu>perl6-m -e "for $*IN.lines -> $x { say $x }"
abc
abc
def
def
^D
♦
^Z
→

Rakudo expects us to hand back null or so when such things happen. Might be a libuv thing, might not.

Apparently, it works for somebody; would be interesting to find out what shell they were using (perhaps some bash for Windows-y thing).

[zoffixznet]

As I recall the events on that Tweet:

<brokenchicken> Mithaldu, as I recall the errors were about readline or something and ^D^Z were broken. I installed latest star and got no errors and ^D worked (not ^Z). I asked sinar for version, he gave me a dev build version, I askdd star release manager about it and he said he had to work around the issue for the release and I told sinar he should use the release version

[wchristian]

Another detail:
17-02-02@22:50:33 (brokenchicken) That's on default Windows7 command prompts

[wchristian]

According to https://twitter.com/steve_mynott/status/827297326398132226 this might involve known brokenness with NativeCall (mentioned in the errata: https://perl6.org/downloads/ ) and a C library called Linenoise. I don't know which exact tickets relate, but hope he'll provide details.

[nanis]

For the record, there are two separate issues.

1. REPL does not exit in response to either CTRL-D or CTRL-Z.

2. Cannot use CTRL-Z to signal EOF on the command line.

Verified with 2017.01 tarball (after manually fixing this). Visual Studio 2015. 64-bit Windows 10 Pro. 64-bit compile.