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Re: SIGINT handling

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2015-09-18 16:14:39 +0100, Stephane Chazelas:
[...]
> In:
> 
> bash -c 'sh -c "trap exit INT; sleep 10; :"; echo hi'
> 
> If I press Ctrl-C, I still see "hi".
[...]

Jilles provided with the explanation at
http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/230731

with a link to:
http://www.cons.org/cracauer/sigint.html

Which makes sense.

Now, IMO a few things could be improved:

1- it would be nice if it could be clearly documented

2- if the shell received SIGINT, then I'd argue the currently
running process returning with a "status" such that
WIFEXITED(status)&& WEXITSTATUS(status) == SIGINT + 0200
should be another case where bash (and AT&T ksh and FreeBSD sh)
should exit as well (by killing themselves with SIGINT or
exit(SIGINT + 0200)).

That's my:

> That sounds like a bad idea, especially considering that it
> doesn't exit either if the process returns with exit code 130
> upon receiving that SIGINT. For instance:
> 
> For instance, in:
> 
> bash -c 'mksh -c "sleep 10; :"; echo hi'
> 
> Upon pressing Ctrl-C, mksh handles the SIGINT and exits with
> 130 (as opposed to dying of a SIGINT), so bash doesn't exit
> (sometimes only on Debian).

3. There still seems to be a bug in bash in that

> On Debian with 4.3.42(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), that
> seems to happen only in something like 80% of the time.

Cheers,
Stephane

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