From: Chris Cummer <chris@...>
Date: 2008-04-09T07:40:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Could someone confirm signal handling is broken on OSX?

If I understand what you're asking correctly, I don't see that happen:

~/Sites/dev/: ruby -e 'loop {sleep 1}'
^C-e:1:in `sleep': Interrupt
	from -e:1
	from -e:1:in `loop'
	from -e:1

~/Sites/dev/:

~/Sites/dev/: ruby -v
ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0) [i686-darwin8.9.4]



On 8-Apr-08, at 3:30 PM, Dave Thomas wrote:

> I've raised this before, but no one replied. I'd like to double  
> check that this is a general problem, and not just something on my  
> box here.
>
> Try
>
>   loop { sleep 1 }
>
> Run it from the console. Then try ^C. I just get ^C echoed back and  
> the program continues running. I have to kill -9 it to get it to stop.
>
> Do others see this?
>
>
> Dave
>
>