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by ajross 3575 days ago
Actually bash (by default) does do something special with ^D: it's mapped to the "delete-the-char-after-the-cursor" functionality (just like the DEL key is), by analog to the delete-char binding in emacs.

But indeed, it's in raw mode so the kernel doesn't do anything special and just emits the 0x04 byte down the descriptor.