how does make respond to ctrl-c?

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From:	Martin d'Anjou
Subject:	how does make respond to ctrl-c?
Date:	Mon, 2 Feb 2009 10:57:55 -0500 (EST)
User-agent:	Alpine 1.00 (LRH 882 2007-12-20)

Hi,

Given this makefile:

all:
        sleep 30 && echo ok || echo not ok

If I hit control-c before the sleep is done, how come "not ok" is notprinted to the screen?


I just want to understand how make propagages ctrl-c to commands.

Martin

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