On 2012-10-30 15:46:40 -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Michael Gilbert wrote: > > Would you mind if this were reassigned to release-notes? It would say > > something along the lines of "Dash is not yet ready as an interactive > > shell, bash is currently the only recommended posix-compliant shell. > > I think that's an overstatement. Maybe "Dash in Debian is not intended > to be used as an interactive shell" could be accurate, though.
The word "interactive" is incorrect, because when the shell is used to run some program (e.g. via C's system() function), it is not interactive. > Please don't reassign this bug, but feel free to clone it and lower > the severity. Yes, this is really a bug in dash IMHO, but Emacs is partly in fault because the Ctrl-G will also send the signal in the other processes in the same process group an Emacs (though this may not be very common). The current situation is extremely annoying. :( -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
