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Denys Vlasenkob12553f2011-02-21 03:22:20 +01001# What should happen if non-interactive shell gets SIGINT?
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3(sleep 1; echo Sending SIGINT to main shell PID; exec kill -INT $$) &
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5# We create a child which exits with 0 even on SIGINT
Denys Vlasenkobac0a252011-02-21 03:47:50 +01006# (The complex command is necessary only if SIGINT is generated by ^C,
Denys Vlasenkob12553f2011-02-21 03:22:20 +01007# in this testcase even bare "sleep 2" would do because
Denys Vlasenkobac0a252011-02-21 03:47:50 +01008# in the testcase we don't send SIGINT *to the child*...)
Denys Vlasenkob12553f2011-02-21 03:22:20 +01009$THIS_SH -c 'trap "exit 0" SIGINT; sleep 2'
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11# In one second, we (main shell) get SIGINT here.
12# The question is whether we should, or should not, exit.
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14# bash will not stop here. It will execute next command(s).
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16# The rationale for this is described here:
17# http://www.cons.org/cracauer/sigint.html
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19# Basically, bash will not exit on SIGINT immediately if it waits
20# for a child. It will wait for the child to exit.
21# If child exits NOT by dying on SIGINT, then bash will not exit.
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23# The idea is that the following script:
24# | emacs file.txt
25# | more cmds
26# User may use ^C to interrupt editor's ops like search. But then
27# emacs exits normally. User expects that script doesn't stop.
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29# This is a nice idea, but detecting "did process really exit
30# with SIGINT?" is racy. Consider:
31# | bash -c 'while true; do /bin/true; done'
32# When ^C is pressed while bash waits for /bin/true to exit,
33# it may happen that /bin/true exits with exitcode 0 before
34# ^C is delivered to it as SIGINT. bash will see SIGINT, then
35# it will see that child exited with 0, and bash will NOT EXIT.
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37# Therefore we do not implement bash behavior.
38# I'd say that emacs need to put itself into a separate pgrp
39# to isolate shell from getting stray SIGINTs from ^C.
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41echo Next command after SIGINT was executed