From: hlu@boromir.eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu) Subject: Re: Job control flakey? Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 06:10:56 GMT
In article <1992Aug20.223208.29133@sol.UVic.CA>, pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) writes:
|> Been meaning to post this for some time, but since I have upgraded to .97 and
|> am still seeing the problem...
|>
|> It seems that sometimes the console ignores ^C and ^Z. I have seen this
|> during "make" and during "tail". But at other times it works just fine.
|> For example, doing a kernel "make", sometimes I can ^C it and sometimes
|> I can't. Does anybody have any idea whether this can be due to my own
|> foolishness, or is it possibly a (shudder) bug?
|>
|> PS: For Motif emulation under SLS, log in as "user1", and type startx.
|>
|> pmacdona@sanjuan.uvic.ca
|>
Same is here. But since I switched to zsh and gnu make I compiled myself, that
problem is gone. I suspect the shell you are using is too old.
H.J.