Matt Wette <matt.wette@gmail.com> writes:

>> On Jan 21, 2017, at 3:55 AM, Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> When running the external program "yes" in shell,
>> 
>>  $ yes
>> 
>> We can terminate the process by pressing C-c.
>> 
>> However, when running the external program "yes" in guile,
>> 
>>  $ guile -c '(system* "yes")'
>> 
>> We cannot terminate the process by pressing C-c,
>> but we can suspend it by pressing C-z.
>> 
>> Why is that? Is there any way I can terminate the process by pressing
>> C-c?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Alex
>
> C-c works on your guile example for me on my Mac.  Try `C-\’.

Hmmm... Neither does 'C-\' work on the guile example. It works on the
shell example though.

I am running Debian with 'uname -a' being:
  Linux debian 4.8.0-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.8.15-2 (2017-01-04) x86_64 GNU/Linux