comint-interrupt-subjob broken (solaris, version dependent)

[Martin Rother]

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In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.9, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2002-06-21 on watford-71
configured using `configure  --prefix=/opt/sfw'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: nil
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

  'comint-interrupt-subjob' does never worked for
  Solaris 9 and, _after_ installing all Solaris patches,
  is broken now for our Solaris 8 boxes too. 

  *Before*
  applying the patches 'C-c C-c' works fine
  on the solaris 8 boxes! 

  As far as I can
  see, 'comint-interrupt-subjob' is still 
  working on fully patched Solaris 2.7 and 
  Solaris 2.6 boxes (with the same configuration), but
  broken for sol8 and 9 independently
  from the version (20.7/21.2) or the
  op-sys-version (2.7,8,9) it's build for
  (if it is running anyhow...).
  
  so I first guessed, that this is an op-sys 
  problem -- but the 'comint-interrupt-subjob'
  function in 'XEmacs' remains intact!

  This broken 'comint-interrupt-subjob' 
  affects the normal shell
  (M-x shell) and other modes running subjobs,
  like IDLwave mode, Gnu-R or Octave...

  -- and this is quite annoying.

  any hint -- any hope?

Recent input:
M-x v e r s i o n <return> C-x 7 C-c C-c <return> <return> 
<return> <return> C-c C-c C-c C-c C-c C-c <return> 
<return> <return> <return> <return> <return> c a t 
<return> C-c C-c C-c C-d C-x k <return> M-x C-g <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <tool-bar> <help>

Recent messages:
Loading /home/mt/rother/lib/emacs/.emacs-options.el (source)...done
Loading /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/Ess/ess-site...
Loading regexp-opt...done
Loading /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/Ess/ess-site...done
Loading /home/mt/rother/lib/emacs/my_ess...done
Loading /home/mt/rother/lib/emacs/.emacs.elc...done
GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.9, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 
2002-06-21 on watford-71
call-interactively: Quit

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        best regards,
        martin rother
-- 
Martin Rother (rother@gfz-potsdam.de)   0331/ 288-1272           Division 2.3
                                        GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Germany