Introduction to Linux Signals 101
or ^C doesn’t kill processes, SIGINT does On the LUV mailing list recently, the perils of tty handling when booting with “init=/bin/bash” came up, and somebody asked why running ‘ping’ (without remembering to run stty or openvt first) will result in you having to reboot. i.e. “why doesn’t ^C work in emergency mode”? I wrote a fairly detailed, but comprehensible to a novice, answer and a friend suggested i should have written it as a blog post – which was …