Re: break signal on Mac OS X doesn't work

[David Goodger]

[Barry Margolin]
> I've seen the same thing, but only when the command I'm trying to
> interrupt is setuid.

Mine aren't setuid.  It's any command at all -- I can't interrupt
anything.  For example,

    while [ 1 ] ; do sleep 1 ; done

I end up having to open up another shell, and kill the process
from there.

> I posted here (or maybe in a comp.sys.mac group)
> months ago and never got a useful answer.
>
> The workaround is to type "C-q C-c RET" to send a literal Control-C
> rather than a signal.

Even that doesn't work for me :-(

Thanks for replying!

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David Goodger <http://python.net/~goodger>

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