Re: [BUG] Bash not reacting to Ctrl-C

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/8/11 7:11 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
> 
>> On 2/8/11 4:17 PM, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>>
>>> Once again. If bash gets ^C and at the same time the current foreground
>>> child exits normally (either because this jctl signal races with exit()
>>> or because the child hooks SIGINT and exits after that) SIGINT is lost.
>>>
>>> set_job_status_and_cleanup() insists that WTERMSIG(child->status) should
>>> be SIGINT, iow the child should be killed by the same signal. Otherwise
>>> it is not going to kill itself, and the next wait_for() clears
>>> wait_sigint_received.
>>>
>>> This all looks intentional, but this means ^C can never work reliably.
>>
>> It depends on what you mean by `reliably'.  Consider a script that runs
>> emacs, then does other processing when emacs completes.  Emacs uses SIGINT
>> internally to interrupt editing commands, but handles it and does not exit
>> as a result.  Since emacs is run from a script, and job control is not
>> enabled, the shell receives the SIGINT also, because it is in the
>> terminal's foreground process group.  Should the shell abort the script
>> when emacs exits?
> 
> Could you try the reproducer please?
> 
> Once you run it, try to stop it via Ctrl-C, and try to do this a couple of 
> times.
> 
> Do you consider it normal that it often takes 2-3 Ctrl-C attempts to 
> interrupt that 
> script, that it is not possible to stop the script reliably with a single 
> Ctrl-C?
> 
> This issue occurs all the time on different hardware and on different 
> distributions, 
> during make jobs and other simpler scripts, etc. - i just simplified it down 
> to a 
> simple testcase.
> 
> Oleg also found another simple testcase i think - and Thomas (Cc:-ed) 
> reported 
> similar Ctrl-C problems with Bash as well.

I tried to reproduce it and wasn't able to.  I use Mac OS X.

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