Is it possible to capture a Ctrl+C signal and run a cleanup function, in a “defer” fashion?

Question

I want to capture the Ctrl+C (SIGINT) signal sent from the console and print out some partial run totals.

Is this possible in Golang?

Answer 1

There were (at time of posting) one or two little typos in the accepted answer above, so here's the cleaned up version. In this example I'm stopping the CPU profiler when receiving Ctrl+C.

// capture ctrl+c and stop CPU profiler                            
c := make(chan os.Signal, 1)                                       
signal.Notify(c, os.Interrupt)                                     
go func() {                                                        
  for sig := range c {                                             
    log.Printf("captured %v, stopping profiler and exiting..", sig)
    pprof.StopCPUProfile()                                         
    os.Exit(1)                                                     
  }                                                                
}()