Fedora 19, Nvidia proprietary driver, control-c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1028272

Recently hit this bug where terminals (urxvt256c) were not getting the ^C interrupt.  It is amazing how many times you use this combination in normal work.

The Redhat guys think it is the Nvidia driver which sucks, but at least there is work around.  I used a script to start my xterms so I just added an intermediate shell call.

New script for xfce4 to call: ~/bin/generic/run-urxvt
#!/bin/bash
# wrapper to work around ^C bug
exec /bin/csh -c "$0.real $@"

Which calls: ~/bin/generic/run-urxvt.real
#!/bin/bash
cd || ( echo "can't cd to ${HOME}" > /dev/console; exit 127)
COLOR[0]=cyan
COLOR[1]=green
COLOR[2]=orange
COLOR[3]=red
COLOR[4]=white
COLOR[5]=yellow
COLOR[6]=lightskyblue
COLOR[7]=#B94949
COLOR[8]=#FDCB54
COLOR[9]=mistyrose
COLOR[10]=GhostWhite
COLOR[11]=khaki
COLOR[12]=SlateGray
COLOR[13]=mediumaquamarine
COLOR[14]=#7459C5
COLOR[15]=violet
COLOR[16]=orangered
COLOR[17]=cornsilk
COLOR[18]=gold
COLOR[19]=LightSlateGrey
#
XBINS=/usr/bin
BINNAME=urxvt256c
#
GEOMETRY=${GEOMETRY:-95x25}
LINEBUFFER=${LINEBUFFER:-2000}
CURSORCOLOR=${CURSORCOLOR:-red}
#
TERMCOLOR="`echo "\`date '+%S'\`%20"  | bc`"
if [ ${TERMNAME:-foo} = "foo" ]; then
        DATE="`date '+%H:%M:%S'`"
        TERMNAME="${COLOR[${TERMCOLOR:-0}]:-white}-${DATE:-0}"
fi
#
# -ptab|+ptab
# If enabled (default), "Horizontal Tab" characters are being stored as actual wide characters in the screen buffer, which makes it possible to select and paste them. Since a horizontal tab is a cursor movement and not an actual glyph, this can sometimes be visually annoying as the cursor on a tab character is displayed as a wide cursor; resource pastableTabs.

for DIR in ${XBINS} ; do
        if [ -x "${DIR}/${BINNAME}" ]; then
                cd
                ${DIR}/${BINNAME}                      \
                  -sl ${LINEBUFFER}                    \
                  -cr ${CURSORCOLOR}                   \
                  -bg black                            \
                  -geometry ${GEOMETRY}                \
                  -fg ${COLOR[${TERMCOLOR:-0}]:-white} \
                  -n "${TERMNAME}"                     \
                  -T "${TERMNAME}"                     \
                  -fn 6x13                             \
                  -fb 6x13bold                         \
                  -tn rxvt                             \
                  +ptab                                \
                  -e /bin/bash
        fi
done
exit $?

If you read through the redhat bug report, Andy Bakun, listed some interesting command line research commands I took note of:
cat /proc/self/status | grep SigBlk
ps -f -o user,pid,blocked,bsdstart,args
I'd used variations of these but never like this.  Going to add this to my debugging tricks.

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