On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 10:14:10AM -0800, bouloumag@hotmail.com wrote:
> In an xterm (or a konsole, gnome-terminal, etc)  promp, just enter the 
> folowing command
> % exec sort
> 
> and after kill it with ctrl+c. The whole shell (and the xterm) is killed.

This is not a bug. Read the man page for bash or ksh or sh or csh,
probably. exec simply executes the command, _without_ forking. So your
shell process is replaced with the new exec'd process, and when it
exits, your original shell is no more.

-- 
Soren Jacobsen