Terminate crunch executable with Ctrl+C

[neochief]

A usual linux-way of terminating a command is pressing Ctrl+C shortcut, which sends SIGINT to the process. If you press it in the middle of crunch job, it doesn't seem to be stopping the whole job. I see a lot of Python-like exceptions on the screen, but the job still being executed (most likely by other spawned processes), even though I get to the terminal.

This might be very dangerous if you screw up and launched crunch over the wrong destination and isn't able to stop it. I had to reboot my machine to stop it.