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Re:ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or TAB delimited text by elwin on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @04:06PM (#7476203)
Ctrl-C stops the program because the TTY driver watches for it and sends an interrupt signal when it appears. It's a slightly different mechanism.

There are more details in "man 3 termios", but be warned, the TTY layer is not a pleasant subject for reading.

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