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We had a problem that ctrl-c was not working on the console.
You need to be running something like mingetty on the console to
have signals (like ctrl-c) picked up. If you start Linux with
something like "init=/bin/bash" then job control signals (like
control C and control Z) won't work.
That doesn't sound correct. When the system is in
single-user mode the console shell is a direct child
of init and is spawned without any kind of getty, yet
(at least in my case) the behavior of the shell is
indistinguishable from one spawned from mutiuser mode -
all signals (and job control, etc) are handled correctly.
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