Re: CTRL-C Doesn't work??!! ....
[ about Ctrl-C having no effect ]
> So... in conclusion: Ctrl-C is working fine - the signal is being
> received. However, the shell isn't killing the running process....
>
> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Doesn't Ctrl-C work for any program at all? It does not work for a lot
of interactive programs when they are expecting input. In those cases
you can usually press Ctrl-Z to stop the program, read the number in
brackets that bash prints, and use that in a kill command, like this:
$ xclock
[ press Ctrl-Z ]
[1]+ Stopped xclock
$ kill %1
If you cannot kill a non-interactive program like xclock with Ctrl-C, I
don't know what is going on. Note however that specific programs can
choose to ignore Ctrl-C. I do not believe programs can choose to ignore
a stop signal (Ctrl-Z).
HTH,
Eric
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E.L. Meijer (tgakem@chem.tue.nl)
Eindhoven Univ. of Technology
Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (SKA)
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