Re: Bash not reacting to Ctrl-C

From: Michael Witten
Date: Wed Feb 09 2011 - 14:38:05 EST


On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 08:53, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> * Michael Witten <mfwitten@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 07:08, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Now that it is clear what happens, the test-case becomes even more
>> > trivial:
>> >
>> > Â Â Â Âbash-4.1$ ./bash -c 'while true; do /bin/true; done'
>> > Â Â Â Â^C^C
>> >
>> > needs 4-5 attempts on my machine.
>>
>> I feel like the odd penguin out.
>>
>> I can't reproduce the behavior in question when using that example (I
>> haven't tried the other).
>>
>> I'm running:
>>
>> Â Â * bash version 4.1.9(2)-release (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
>>
>> Â Â * linux 2.6.38-rc4 (100b33c8bd8a3235fd0b7948338d6cbb3db3c63d)
>
> Oleg provided another testcase, can you reproduce the Ctrl-C problem with this
> it?
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> perl -we '$SIG{INT} = sub {exit}; sleep'
>
> echo "Hehe, I am going to sleep after ^C"
> sleep 100
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Â Â Â ÂIngo
>

Yes, that requires me to press Ctrl-C twice in order to escape the
entire script. However, what do you expect the following to do:

#!/bin/bash

perl -we '$SIG{INT} = "IGNORE"; sleep 10'

echo "Hehe, I am going to sleep after ^C"
sleep 100
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