Hey,

Summary: I'm running into the problem that Ctrl+C stops working when I
run zsh inside a container via systemd-nspawn.

Background: I've been using chroots into full distribution trees in
order to build packages for several Linux distributions without running
full-fledged virtual machines. It basically boiled down to bind-mounting
a couple of directories and running »chroot /bin/zsh« inside the correct
directory.

For several technical reasons I'm trying to switch to using
systemd-nspawn. systemd-nspawn is setting up a container for the whole
thing (meaning various namespaces and control groups) similar to
lxc-start from lxc or OpenVZ. I don't run a full init inside that
container but solely /bin/zsh.

Now my problem. With the older method (chrooting) I could use Ctrl+C
properly from inside the chrooted zsh. Meaning typing something and
hitting Ctrl+C would abort the current line and give me a new pristine
prompt.

Not so with systemd-nspawn'd zsh: here Ctrl+c does nothing at all.

However, if I run the very same systemd-nspawn with bash instead of zsh
then bash will recognize Ctrl+C and act upon it properly.

Some more information on what I've tried:

- »stty -a« from systemd-nspawn'd zsh correctly shows »intr = ^C«

- Running »cat« from systemd-nspawn'd zsh and hitting Ctrl+C prints the
  characters »^C« but cat is not aborted and keeps running.

- Changing the interrupt key to Ctrl+X from systemd-nspawn'd zsh with
  »stty intr \^X« makes Ctrl+X not do anything anymore – just like
  Ctrl+C before that »stty intr…«.

- The same happens if I run zsh with --no-rcs.

- The same happens running ssh'ed in from another machine and from
  inside konsole running in a local X server; both cases use different
  TERM environment variables (»putty-256color« for the ssh case and
  »xterm« for the konsole/X case).

The actual command line I'm using is something like the following:

systemd-nspawn --directory=/other-linux/64/debian/jessie \
  --machine=64-debian-jessie --tmpfs=/var/lock \
  --setenv=SHELL=/bin/zsh5 --setenv=HOME=/root --user=root \
  -- /bin/zsh5 --no-rcs

This is a stripped-down version that I've confirmed to not to work.

zsh on the parent: 5.0.7; zsh inside the container: 5.0.7 (but I've
confirmed this with several older zsh versions as well, e.g. Debian
wheezy's 4.3.17).

Any ideas how I might continue debugging this issue? At this point I
don't even have an idea who the culprit might be (zsh? systemd-nspawn?
Configuration files?), not to mention how to get it working.

I'd appreciate any insight and will gladly provide more information if
necessary.

Thanks.

Kind regards,
mosu