Re: On solaris, a SIGINT sent to a child process of Korn Shell kills the shell itself

[Stefano Lattarini]

On Monday 12 September 2011, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 09/12/11 13:03, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> >> > It's just that this trick doesn't work for the shell itself,
> >> > at least, it doesn't always work in the presence of traps.
> >> > 
> > So you basically agree with my opinion?
> 
> I agree that it's a problem with ksh's behavior.
>
Glad to hear this.

> I'm not sure that it violates POSIX; that would
> require more POSIX-lawyering, I'm afraid.  The
> wording in this area is pretty opaque.
> 
If that ksh behaviour doesn't clearly violate POSIX, then future
versions of the standard should IMHO be enahnced to explicitly
prohibit it (in both its AT&T and Solaris variants).  But before
hurring to open a bug report with the opengroup, let's wait for
some POSIX guru to step in and save the day ;-)

Regards,
  Stefano