linux-kernel - [PATCH] Enabling the echo of ctrl-C (and the like)

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Date:	Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:21:55 -0700
From:	Joe Peterson <joe@...rush.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, alan@...hat.com
Subject: [PATCH] Enabling the echo of ctrl-C (and the like)

Attached is a patch that turns on INTR/QUIT/SUSP echoing in the N_TTY
line discipline (e.g. ctrl-C will appear as "^C" if stty echoctl is set
and ctrl-C is set as INTR).

Linux seems to be the only unix-like OS (recently I've verified this on
Solaris, BSD, and Mac OS X) that does *not* behave this way, and I
really miss this as a good visual confirmation of the interrupt of a
program in the console or xterm.  I remember this fondly from many Unixs
I've used over the years as well.  Bringing this to Linux also seems
like a good way to make it yet more compliant with standard unix-like
behavior.

The fix is pretty trivial.  Let me know if you think this is a candidate
for inclusion in the kernel.

					Thanks, Joe

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