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

From: Philipp Ost <pj_at_smo.de>
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2025 15:59:02 UTC
On 11/2/25 02:22, cyric@mm.st wrote:
> Dennis Clarke wrote:
>> On 11/1/25 20:30, Michael Gmelin wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 2. Nov 2025, at 00:34, Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 
>>>> This is about as annoying as a small sharp stone stuck in a shoe :
>>>>
>> ...
>>> Wasn‘t this always the default behavior in /bin/sh?
>>>
>>
>> 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.
> 
> zsh does, ksh93 (illumos) does.

ksh93 from ports (shells/ksh93) does not.

> 
>> 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.
>