Re: interrupt causes parse error in configure script

[Paul Eggert]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:

> $ ksh -c 'if test `sleep 5; echo hi` = hi ; then echo yes; fi'
> ^Cksh: test: hi: unexpected operator/operand

I've also observed this problem.  More generally, I've seen ^C not
interrupt 'configure' scripts properly, in ways other than what Jim is
fixing here, on various platforms.  I haven't bothered to try to track
down all the shell bugs involved, but it's nice that Jim is squashing
one of them....