diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 9e8b0561d..e1cb6349f 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
     "clean": "rimraf dist",
     "tsc": "tsc",
     "build": "npm run clean && npm run tsc",
-    "test-spec": "mocha dist/**/*.spec.js -R spec --bail",
+    "test-spec": "mocha --reporter mocha-reporter dist/**/*.spec.js --bail",
     "test-cov": "istanbul cover node_modules/mocha/bin/_mocha -- \"dist/**/*.spec.js\" -R spec --bail",
     "test": "npm run build && npm run lint && npm run test-cov",
     "prepublish": "typings install && npm run build"
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@
     "make-error": "^1.1.1",
     "minimist": "^1.2.0",
     "mkdirp": "^0.5.1",
+    "mocha-reporter": "0.0.3",
     "source-map-support": "^0.4.0",
     "tsconfig": "^7.0.0",
     "v8flags": "^3.0.0",
diff --git a/src/bin.ts b/src/bin.ts
index 2aa928fab..51b72388a 100644
--- a/src/bin.ts
+++ b/src/bin.ts
@@ -57,6 +57,11 @@ v8flags(function (err, v8flags) {
     { stdio: 'inherit' }
   )
 
+  // Ignore the following signals; the child process will be receiving them,
+  // and should exit by itself
+  process.on('SIGINT', () => true)
+  process.on('SIGTERM', () => true)
+
   proc.on('exit', function (code: number, signal: string) {
     process.on('exit', function () {
       if (signal) {
diff --git a/src/index.spec.ts b/src/index.spec.ts
index 839fb4f40..4f4e038cb 100644
--- a/src/index.spec.ts
+++ b/src/index.spec.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { expect } from 'chai'
-import { exec } from 'child_process'
+import { exec, spawn } from 'child_process'
 import { join } from 'path'
 import semver = require('semver')
 import ts = require('typescript')
@@ -20,6 +20,24 @@ describe('ts-node', function () {
   })
 
   describe('cli', function () {
+    it('should not react to signals, but forward them to the child process', function (done) {
+      const proc = spawn('node', [
+        EXEC_PATH,
+        './tests/signals.ts'
+      ])
+
+      proc.stdout.on('data', (data) => {
+        const message = data.toString()
+        expect(message).to.be.eq('exit')
+        done()
+      })
+
+      proc.stderr.on('data', (data) => console.log(data.toString()))
+
+      proc.on('exit', (code) => expect(code).to.be.eq(null))
+      setTimeout(() => proc.kill('SIGTERM'), 100)
+    })
+
     it('should execute cli', function (done) {
       exec(`${BIN_EXEC} tests/hello-world`, function (err, stdout) {
         expect(err).to.equal(null)
diff --git a/tests/signals.ts b/tests/signals.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c5473c4b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/signals.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+process.on('SIGINT', () => {
+  setTimeout(() => {
+    console.log('exited')
+    process.exit(0)
+  }, 500)
+})
+
+setInterval(() => console.log('should not be reached'), 2000)