On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 02:59:02PM -0500, Andrew Brown wrote:
> is this just an old tcsh you checked?  mine (6.09.00) seems to handle
> ^c appropriately.

Older, but not ancient.  tcsh 6.08.00
Compiling tcsh 6.09.00 gives the same (disfunctional) behaviour for me.

Signal handling might also be affected by how you got to your shell -
console, login shell, ssh, telnet.

I tracked this down in /bin/csh, to exec.c, line 166, where it does
the argument globbing before the exec.

    if (gflag) {
        av = globall(av);
        if (av == 0) {
            blkfree(pv);
            setname(vis_str(expath));
            stderror(ERR_NAME | ERR_NOMATCH);
        }
        gargv = 0;
    }

In a short attempt, I couldn't add signal code to get me back to
a prompt on ^C.

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