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  • A control+c may or may not cause a running foreground process to terminate, depending on signal masking. The control+c will cause a SIGINT to be sent to all processes in the foreground process group (often including the shell, which means SIGINT handling in modern shells can be hilariously complicated). Commented Mar 4, 2016 at 0:12