Is it safe to interrupt (Ctrl + C) while building a port or kernel?

RW rwmaillists at googlemail.com
Thu Nov 3 22:15:26 UTC 2011


On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 12:20:46 -0500 (CDT)
Robert Bonomi wrote:

> > From owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org  Thu Nov  3 12:10:08 2011
> > From: =?koi8-r?B?4c7Uz84g68zF09M=?= <rc5hack at yandex.ru>
> > To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 21:10:19 +0400
> > Subject: Is it safe to interrupt (Ctrl + C) while building a port
> > or kernel?
>>
> > Is it clear to interrupt the building process just by pressing Ctrl
> > + <C>?
> 
> Yes.

Whilst it's not strictly-speaking "building", I would avoid interrupting
an install.


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