On 2015/12/02 03:20, Ted Unangst wrote: > Stuart Henderson wrote: > > On 2015/11/28 22:02, Sebastian Benoit wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > running tail -f on a file and then pressing Ctrl-4 while it waits for data > > > results in a crash: > > > > Somewhere (terminal emulator?) this is converted to Ctrl-\ which defaults > > to doing 'quit'. (Very useful when ftp hangs, or to interrupt /etc/rc > > if you wanted to enter single-user mode but didn't catch the boot prompt > > in time). > > Is there a bug here? Is the expectation that tail should handle sigquit?
Just surprise at the terminal emulator behaviour I think (but no bug there either).