On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 01:52:46AM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> Sometimes when using "poor man's search" (grep something
> */*/Makefile), I change my mind in the middle of it, and try to CTRL-C
> out of it -- but it doesn't work: I still have to wait before the
> shell (bash) has expanded all the filenames, only then do the CTRL-C's
> I've entered finally do something. Is there a way to stop this faster?
> (except killing the shell) Is this something bash should learn, or is
> the problem on NetBSD's side?

Well, for a summary:

bash, tcsh, csh		BAD
sh, ksh			GOOD

Also, It only happens for things it execs. (As far as I've tried)
Builtins, like echo /usr/pkgsrc/*/*/Makefile can be stopped right
away in all shells.

I'd guess that sh sets a signal handler properly as soon as it
starts globbing. ksh inherited that. csh broke it, and tcsh and
bash inherited that.

Shouldn't be too hard to find. 

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