+#ifdef SMP
+ /* if I'm a worker thread, send this signal to the guy who
+ * originally called startupHaskell(). Since we're handling
+ * the signal, it won't be a "send to all threads" type of signal
+ * (according to the POSIX threads spec).
+ */
+ if (pthread_self() != startup_guy) {
+ pthread_kill(startup_guy, sig);
+ } else
+#endif
+
+ /* If we're already trying to interrupt the RTS, terminate with
+ * extreme prejudice. So the first ^C tries to exit the program
+ * cleanly, and the second one just kills it.
+ */
+ if (interrupted) {
+ exit(EXIT_INTERRUPTED);
+ } else {
+ interruptStgRts();
+ }