Re: CORRECTION: ^c broken in latest potato

[Alex Romosan <romosan@adonis.lbl.gov>]

George Bonser <grep@shorelink.com> writes:

> ^C only seems to be broken for SOME programs.  
> 
> If I, for example, go to /var/lib/dpkg/info and do an ls ... a ^C will not
> stop it.
> 
> If I issue ^C at the bash prompt, I get a new prompt. ^C also seems to
> kill top.
> 
> ^C will not kill a ps before it completes either.
> 
> 

but this happens only if you use bash. i use tcsh as my regular shell
and i don't see this problem. when i am logged in as root using bash
as my shell things start to break. also, bash doesn't seem to export
environment variables. this breaks a lot of scripts. we better get
this fixed soon.

--alex--

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