Re: emergency or init=/bin/sh mode and terminal signals

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Mon Jun 19 2006 - 08:07:13 EST


>Hi,
>
>There's a long-standing issue in init=/bin/sh mode: pressing control-C
>doesn't send a SIGINT to programs running on the console. The incurred
>typical pitfall is if one runs ping without a -c option... no way to
>stop it!

Worse, I can observe same behavior when using "-b", i.e. init=/sbin/init
called with -b (read: `/sbin/init -b`), and init starts a su shell before
continuing. No ^C either to my knowledge.
rpm -q sysvinit: 2.86


Jan Engelhardt
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