diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 2b75907c3ae75f04b8812957d3deffe31263d892..5aab7d7dd2960f2c9228bcd86a8e3f5e6dd38f56 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ documents those changes that are of interest to users and admins.
  -- Added job and node state descriptions to the squeue and sinfo man pages
  -- Backup slurmctld to generate core file on SIGABRT
  -- Backup slurmctld to re-read slurm.conf on SIGHUP
+ -- Added -q,--quit-on-interrupt option to srun.
 
 * Changes in SLURM 0.3.0.0-pre6
 ===============================
diff --git a/doc/man/man1/srun.1 b/doc/man/man1/srun.1
index f27cabcd8203c19c434a6ea82f001ffa6a7bb771..012710fb74a2dc66fc9fd2c9c4782537c31c0ef8 100644
--- a/doc/man/man1/srun.1
+++ b/doc/man/man1/srun.1
@@ -226,6 +226,12 @@ all remaining tasks. The default value is unlimited. This can be useful to
 insure that a job is terminated in a timely fashion in the event that one 
 or more tasks terminate prematurely.
 .TP
+\fB\-q\fR, \fB\-\-quit-on-interrupt\fR
+Quit immediately on single SIGINT (Ctrl-C). Use of this option
+disables the status feature normally available when \fBsrun\fR receives 
+a single Ctrl-C and causes \fBsrun\fR to instead immediately terminate the
+running job.
+.TP
 \fB\-\-uid\fR=\fIuser\fR
 If
 .B srun
diff --git a/src/srun/opt.c b/src/srun/opt.c
index 149b4e15a1ad31402dd3b50ebc37d01a4fb6b814..34cf3c76ea8a0ceab64755d5e5a08df2235eb0f4 100644
--- a/src/srun/opt.c
+++ b/src/srun/opt.c
@@ -416,6 +416,8 @@ static void _opt_default()
 	opt.join	= false;
 	opt.max_wait	= slurm_get_wait_time();
 
+	opt.quit_on_intr = false;
+
 	_verbose = 0;
 	opt.slurmd_debug = LOG_LEVEL_QUIET;
 
@@ -634,6 +636,7 @@ static void _opt_args(int argc, char **argv)
 		{"wait",          required_argument, 0, 'W'},
 		{"exclude",       required_argument, 0, 'x'},
 		{"no-allocate",   no_argument,       0, 'Z'},
+		{"quit-on-interrupt", no_argument,   0, 'q'},
 
 		{"contiguous",       no_argument,       0, LONG_OPT_CONT},
 		{"mincpus",          required_argument, 0, LONG_OPT_MINCPU},
@@ -650,7 +653,7 @@ static void _opt_args(int argc, char **argv)
 		{"usage",            no_argument,       0, LONG_OPT_USAGE}
 	};
 	char *opt_string = "+a:Abc:C:d:D:e:Hi:IjJ:klm:n:N:"
-		"o:Op:r:st:T:uvVw:W:x:Z";
+		"o:Op:r:st:T:uvVw:W:x:Zq";
 	char **rest = NULL;
 
 	opt.progname = xbasename(argv[0]);
@@ -769,6 +772,9 @@ static void _opt_args(int argc, char **argv)
 			xfree(opt.partition);
 			opt.partition = xstrdup(optarg);
 			break;
+		case (int)'q':
+			opt.quit_on_intr = true;
+			break;
 		case (int)'r':
 			xfree(opt.relative);
 			opt.relative = xstrdup(optarg);
@@ -1319,6 +1325,7 @@ static void _help(void)
 	printf("  -T, --threads=threads         set srun launch fanout\n");
 	printf("  -W, --wait=sec                seconds to wait after first task ends\n");
  	printf("                                before killing job\n");
+	printf("  -q, --quit-on-interrupt       quit on single Ctrl-C\n");
 
 	printf("\nAllocate only:\n");
 	printf("  -A, --allocate                allocate resources and spawn a shell\n");
diff --git a/src/srun/opt.h b/src/srun/opt.h
index 1c44ebba61b426ee1dd85accba1b9a6b8b4e243a..387ce7d5081d89396f536258a41e967cebabfb32 100644
--- a/src/srun/opt.h
+++ b/src/srun/opt.h
@@ -130,6 +130,7 @@ typedef struct srun_options {
 	bool no_kill;		/* --no-kill, -k		*/
 	bool share;		/* --share,   -s		*/
 	int  max_wait;		/* --wait,    -W		*/
+	bool quit_on_intr;      /* --quit-on-interrupt, -q      */
 #ifdef HAVE_TOTALVIEW
 	bool totalview;		/* srun controlled by TotalView	*/
 #endif
diff --git a/src/srun/signals.c b/src/srun/signals.c
index d935781afc062685b4821fd19eded05040f6f747..959a852aefd35f36200cc988501b1466c19a6cbd 100644
--- a/src/srun/signals.c
+++ b/src/srun/signals.c
@@ -189,6 +189,10 @@ _sigterm_handler(int signum)
 static void
 _handle_intr(job_t *job, time_t *last_intr, time_t *last_intr_sent)
 {
+	if (opt.quit_on_intr) {
+		job_force_termination(job);
+		pthread_exit (0);
+	}
 
 	if ((time(NULL) - *last_intr) > 1) {
 		info("interrupt (one more within 1 sec to abort)");