On 10/9/20 7:23 PM, Daniel Farina wrote:
> Bash Version: 5.0
> Patch Level: 17
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
>
> Pressing Ctrl-C during any subshell evaluation terminates the shell. I
> noticed this when using direnv and emacs together: Ctrl-C would not cancel
> a subprocess started by the shell, but would exit the entire shell.
>
> Relaying this from: https://github.com/direnv/direnv/issues/627
>
> Repeat-By:
>
> Per https://github.com/direnv/direnv/issues/627#issuecomment-635611930
>
> $ cat bash.rc
> eval "$(direnv hook bash)"
What commands does this `direnv' command output?
>
> $ bash --rcfile bash.rc
> bash$ echo $PROMPT_COMMAND
> _direnv_hook
What does `direnv_hook' do?
> bash$ $(sleep 10) # pressing ^C during those 10 seconds will terminate the
> shell
> ^C
> $ # inner shell terminated
My guess is that it messes with the controlling terminal somehow, causing
the shell to get EOF or -1/EIO when it attempts to read input.
Chet
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