[Haskell-cafe] Why is GHCi so hard to kill?

18 May 2017

      If I  put ghci into  a loop  by entering "last  $ repeat ()"  then the
process is impossible  to interrupt or kill except  with "kill -KILL".
(Although it can be stopped with Ctrl-Z.)  "kill -TERM" does not work.
The  same is  true if  I run  a runhaskell  script containing  "main =
putStrLn $ show $ last $ repeat $ ()".

Is  there a  reason for  ghci being  so unkillable?   It is  generally
considered a bad idea for a program to ignore the TERM signal.

(Details: Debian Linux Jessie 8.8, GHC 8.0.2 (built from source).)

Regards,

Jeremy Henty