Nikolaus Schulz wrote: > Please consider this bash script: > > : | while true; do sleep 1; done > echo "After loop" > > If I hit ^C while it runs, shouln't it terminate? > > I have tested bash versions 4.2.37(1)-release, 4.1.5(1)-release, > and 3.2.39(1)-release. (Debian Sid, Squeeze and Lenny.) > > All these bash versions output "After loop". > zsh and dash do exit immediately. Which behaviour is correct? > I couldn't find what POSIX says about this.
Read this reference for an analysis of this issue. http://www.cons.org/cracauer/sigint.html Since this is being asked as a general question this would be a better topic to start discussing first on on the help-bash mailing list. As currently stated it is too non-specific to be a bug report to bug-bash. Bob
