CTRL-c kills all children of current parent process.

[Volker Quetschke <quetschke at scytek dot de>]

I encountered the problem that a CTRL-c in a shell (tested with bash in
rxvt and in cmd.exe with/without CYGWIN=tty (Yes, before I started the
bash)) kills all children started by the running process even though
it has its own signal handler in place.

Take the attached source and compile it.
$ gcc breaktest.c -o breaktest.exe

Start it and press CTRL-c:
$ ./breaktest.exe
Started child pid: 372 from parent 3504
you have pressed ctrl-c
wait returned: 372
pid: 372 wid: 372
Done

Hmm, the CTRL-c kills the child and the parent returns because
the child finished.

Now start it again and send the SIGINT via `kill -INT <parentid>` from
another shell (3x in this example):

$ ./breaktest.exe
Started child pid: 2140 from parent 3608
you have pressed ctrl-c
you have pressed ctrl-c
you have pressed ctrl-c


That works as expected. So the question is, can killing the children
of a running process by CTRL-c be considered a bug?


    Volker


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#include <stdio.h>
#include <process.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>

void sigproc(int);
void quitproc(int);

int
main(void)
{
  pid_t pid1, wid;
  int status;

  char *cmnd[] = {"sleep", "2000", (char *)0 };

  signal(SIGINT, sigproc);
  signal(SIGQUIT, quitproc); 

  pid1 = spawnvp(_P_NOWAIT, cmnd[0], (const char**) cmnd);
  if(pid1 == -1) {
    fprintf(stderr,"%s : %s\n", cmnd[0], strerror(errno));
  }
  fprintf(stderr, "Started child pid: %d from parent %d\n", pid1, getpid());

  do {
     wid = wait(&status);
     fprintf(stderr, "wait returned: %d\n", wid);
  } while( wid != pid1 );

  fprintf(stderr, "pid: %d wid: %d\nDone\n", pid1, wid);
}

void sigproc(int a) {
   printf("you have pressed ctrl-c \n");
}
 
void quitproc(int a) {
   printf("ctrl-\\ pressed to quit\n");
   exit(0); /* normal exit status */
}

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