According to Dennis's e-mail, this is normal behavior, not a bug. Do not attempt to fix it.
-- Sent from my iPad > On Jun 4, 2014, at 2:02 PM, Jens Stimpfle <deb...@jstimpfle.de> wrote: > >> 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. >
