On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 01:34:22PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > On 06/04/2014 01:28 PM, Dennis Williamson wrote: > >> My feeling is that aborting a prompt should not change the $? variable. > > I agree that it is annoying behavior that Ctrl-C changes $?, but at > least we're in good company, since ksh has the same behavior (well, > there $? is set to 258, since ksh takes advantage of the POSIX rule that > it can represent exit due to signal in $? by using values that are > unambiguous with regular exit). zsh almost has the same behavior, > except it sets $? to 1 instead of any indication that a signal occurred.
Dash on the other hand doesn't change $?. I don't think we can speak of "exit" here.
