Re: a really big question : why not "^C" for a CTRL-C with default /bin/sh ?

From: Dennis Clarke <dclarke_at_blastwave.org>
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2025 00:59:55 UTC
On 11/1/25 20:30, Michael Gmelin wrote:
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>> On 2. Nov 2025, at 00:34, Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org> wrote:
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>> This is about as annoying as a small sharp stone stuck in a shoe :
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> Wasn‘t this always the default behavior in /bin/sh?
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If it was and if it is then it is broken and always has been.

No UNIX shell *ever* behaves this way in at least the last four decades.

Perhaps three decades. As far back as I can recall and that includes
using paper terminals. It may be the libedit library there has a borked
way of dealing with a SIGINT.


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Dennis Clarke
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