Interrupt command (Control + C) no longer working in VS Code 1.79 terminal on macOS

At the top of every terminal I open is the text:
"bash: no job control in this shell"

I don't remember changing anything in VS Code but now I can no longer use 'control + c' to stop stuff in my terminal (like 'npm run dev' and 'node app.js')

Everything still works perfectly in my computer's terminal - it's just VS Code that's having issues.

I haven't tried much because I couldn't really find anything online about this exact issue. I tried ChatGPT, which told me to add some configurations to my settings.json file, but none of them worked.

I'm pretty sure this is a case of this open issue: MacOS: "no job control in this shell" #184713, which is affecting macOS users using VS Code 1.79. I suggest that you give that issue ticket a thumbs up to show that you have the issue, and subscribe to it to get notified about discussion and progress.

As a current workaround, others have found that the issue does not occur to them after downgrading to VS Code 1.78 or 1.77. Others have found that the issue goes away if they put export PROMPT_COMMAND="set -m" in one of their bash startup files, such as ~/.bash_profile.

It seems that none of the affected users who have reported their system info in that issue ticket are on a macOS version >= Big Sur. It's been suggested that the issue might be due to use of a missing posix_spawn api in the affected versions.