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Re: [Help-bash] How to forbidden SIGINT be propagated from the parent sc


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: [Help-bash] How to forbidden SIGINT be propagated from the parent script to the child script?
Date: Sat, 30 May 2015 13:50:45 -0400
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On 5/29/15 12:20 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Greg Wooledge <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 09:48:05AM -0500, Peng Yu wrote:
>>> Is there a way to make any scripts (any their child scripts) called by
>>> the main script not responsive to Ctrl-C?
>>
>> The obvious way is to ignore SIGINT:
>>
>> trap '' INT
> 
> I works for this test case 1 but not test case 2. Do you know why?
> What is the difference in case 2?

One obvious difference is that case 2 invokes `R', while case 1 invokes
sleep/wait.  Who knows what R is doing with the SIGINT, since there's
nothing stopping R from installing a signal handler for it?  (The
`execution halted' message does provide a hint that it installs one.)

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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    address@hidden    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/



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