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From: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid
Subject: Re: ^C Problems under 4.4???
Message-ID: <55528@pyramid.pyramid.com>
Date: 18 Jan 89 19:37:20 GMT
References: <1602@galaxy>
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA
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In article <1602@galaxy> dave@andromeda (Dave Bloom) writes:
>I've just brought up OSx4.4 with the att init-getty-login package,
>and a funny thing happens: when you log in on a regular terminal
>or pty with a default sh or ksh, ^C processing is screwy. A ^C
>DOESN'T interrupt the current process.

Sounds like someone broke /etc/profile, and forgot to turn the traps off.
There should be a line like:

	trap 1 2 3

at the end of the file. If this is missing (or /etc/profile is exiting early),
^C will cause a little lost output, but the program will continue to run. Csh
sets its own signal traps, so when you invoke it ^C works again.

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