On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 11:24:45PM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> On Jul 14,  6:42pm, dyoung@pobox.com (David Young) wrote:
> -- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/bin/sh (trap.c:1.32)
> 
> | Geoff,
> | 
> | This explains why one of my daemons goes away directly after /etc/rc
> | finishes, thanks.  (It didn't used to do that!)
> | 
> | Christos, maybe that should be "Don't hard ignore signals that were
> | ignored by our environment ..." after a trap is set?
> | 
> 
> Can you please explain more what you would like the behavior to be?
> I.e. If a shell script does not trap anything, then it should inherit
> the parents behavior, but if it sets a trap, then what should it do?

If it sets a trap, then it should not block the signal for which it set
a trap.  It should continue to block every other signal, if that is the
behavior inherited from the parent.

If it resets a trap, then perhaps it should revert to the behavior
inherited from the parent for that signal.

Dave

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