On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 01:30:23AM +0100, Roland Illig 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.

I suspect this is a local problem, it is only the new bmake which has
this issue here.

g.