in bash does control-c = SIGINT or SIGTERM?

walterbyrd · 05-09-2006, 10:36 AM

That's all I need to know. Thanx.

ioerror · 05-09-2006, 10:58 AM

It has nothing to do with bash. The terminal driver (or xterm/etc) interprets one key as an interrupt key and sends an interrupt signal (SIGINT) to the foreground process (the session leader). You can change the key used for this with stty. The default happens to be control-c.

jlliagre · 05-09-2006, 11:01 AM

This is not releated to bash, but to the underlying tty driver.
Usually, <ctrl>-C is SIGINT but you can change that to any other character with the stty command.
SIGTERM is not linked to an interrupt character but is just the signal sent by default by the kill command.