Ingo Molnar wrote: > 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.
I was not able to reproduce your problem using your (I believe to be slightly incorrect) test case: bash -c 'while true; do /bin/true; done' It was always interrupted with a single control-C on my amd64 Debian Squeeze machine. I expect this means that by chance it was always bash running in the foreground process and /bin/true never happened to be there at the right time. > 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? Since the exit status of /bin/true is ignored then I think that test case is flawed. I think at the least needs to check the exit status of the /bin/true process. bash -c 'while true; do /bin/true || exit 1; done' Bob
