Subject: Re: signal lossage?
To: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
From: Paul B Dokas <dokas@cs.umn.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 02/25/1999 21:44:21
On 25 Feb 1999, Michael Graff wrote:
> 
> This is damned strange.
> 
> I'm running tcsh, compiled on a very -current current, using the
> package source tcsh.
> 
> I type "make".
> 
> I hit ^c to stop it.
> 
> I get my shell prompt back, but the make keeps on going...
> 
> --Michael

Just a few days ago, I submitted a PR about 'make fetch' doing exactly
this.

My best guess is that make is not properly catching signals and/or
process groups for all of the stuff that it spawns off.  Still digging.

Paul
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Paul Dokas                                            dokas@cs.umn.edu
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