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From: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@cs.elte.hu>
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Subject: signal handling bug
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Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 23:59:38 +0100 (MET)
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Try

% zsh -c 'trap exit INT ; while true ; do sleep 1 ; done'

It is not interruptible with ^C.  The INT signal terminates the sleep 1
process but zsh ignores this and starts an other sleep.  Without sleep
^C works.  It also works without `trap exit INT' or in interractive shells.

Bye,

Zoltan