From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2008-04-09T09:16:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Could someone confirm signal handling is broken on OSX?

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?

Yes, and it's rather frustrating.

- Charlie