Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 13:33:54 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Interesting un-interruptible shell script on 3.0-RELEASE (possible sh bug?) Message-ID: <19981222133354.C85005@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199812220243.VAA21066@lakes.dignus.com>; from Thomas David Rivers on Mon, Dec 21, 1998 at 09:43:24PM -0500 References: <199812220243.VAA21066@lakes.dignus.com>
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On Monday, 21 December 1998 at 21:43:24 -0500, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > Try the following on a 3.0-RELEASE system, under the bourne shell: > > while true > do > sleep 2 > done > > You'll quickly discover there's no way to interrupt it (i.e. control-C > if that's your intr character.) Right. It's obviously a sh problem; it works fine under bash. How about a PR (with a solution if possible :-) Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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