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Ctrl+C signal kills the terminal

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
shell
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start by reproducing the issue while a working process runs in the terminal, then trace how Ctrl+C signals are handled by the terminal and its child process. Done means Ctrl+C stops the working process without terminating the terminal itself; the issue does not name a file or test to run.

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Description

everything is working fine, but if you try to kill a working process in the terminal, Hitting Ctrl+C will kill the terminal.

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Shell
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Forks
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Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
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