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Re: Aborting prompt with Ctrl-c sets exit status variable ($?) to 130
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Jens Stimpfle |
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Re: Aborting prompt with Ctrl-c sets exit status variable ($?) to 130 |
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Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:02:47 +0200 |
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On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 01:34:22PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 06/04/2014 01:28 PM, Dennis Williamson wrote:
> >> My feeling is that aborting a prompt should not change the $? variable.
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> I agree that it is annoying behavior that Ctrl-C changes $?, but at
> least we're in good company, since ksh has the same behavior (well,
> there $? is set to 258, since ksh takes advantage of the POSIX rule that
> it can represent exit due to signal in $? by using values that are
> unambiguous with regular exit). zsh almost has the same behavior,
> except it sets $? to 1 instead of any indication that a signal occurred.
Dash on the other hand doesn't change $?.
I don't think we can speak of "exit" here.