I've found a way to reproduce the issue. Make SVN_SSH point to the following script:
---------------------------------------- #!/bin/sh sleep 10 & while true; do :; done ---------------------------------------- Do a "svn up" and Ctrl-C. Then svn terminates only when "sleep" terminates. If I redirect the output of "sleep" to /dev/null, like that: ---------------------------------------- #!/bin/sh sleep 10 > /dev/null & while true; do :; done ---------------------------------------- then the problem disappears, i.e. Ctrl-C immediately terminates svn. Note: the reason this problem occurs in my case is that my script does "ssh -fMN ..." when the control socket doesn't exist. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)

