Re: how to get make to terminate itself at the first error?

[Martin d Anjou]

On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Martin d Anjou wrote:

> > So sending SIGTERM is not quite like hitting ^C. I'd really like to 
> > understand the difference and get it to work like ^C.
>
> I have tried with bash-4-rc1 and this problem goes away. SIGTERM kills all 
> processes in bash 4, and the processes substitution does return immediately 
> and no longer waits for the sleep to end. bash 4 must have improved signal 
> handling.

What I said above does not work all the time and I do not understand why.

Martin