Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> 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

It's a different problem on Solaris. At least for me. When logged in 
directly, I cannot stop _any_ process using ^C:

$ cat
^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^Z
[1]+  Stopped                 cat

Inside a screen(1), it works.

Roland