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Bash Version: 4.0 Patch Level: 33 Release Status: release Hello! The 3.2 series of bash acted like this when the user is typing C-c (SIGINT) in an interactive shell during command line editing: cancel the command line editing, display a new prompt, set $? to 1. With the recent version, this changed as follows: cancel the command line editing, display ^C, display a new prompt, set $? to 128. The displaying of ^C is in line with displaying it when a running process is being signalled, where is also was displayed with bash versions 3.2 already. But why the value 128 for $? -- shouldn't this rather be 128 + SIGINT? I don't care too much about this, but noticed it, and thought that I'd bring it to your attention. Regards, Thomas
