On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, grant beattie wrote:

> bmake/bootstrap builds on Solaris 9, but it's job control is a bit
> broken. after starting a pkg build, I can hit ^C all I like, and nothing
> happens. strangely, even ^\ didn't kill it, I had to kill the
> top-level bmake from another shell.

This problem has been reported several times for various platforms. Here 
is my PR:
http://www.NetBSD.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=31013

> do you have the original diff of bootstrap/bmake vs. devel/bmake? I'm
> guessing the diff will make it easy to identify and fix this.

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/reed/bmake.diff.bz2

It is 39448 lines (229519 bytes bzipped).

  Jeremy C. Reed

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