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Re: [50 character or so descriptive subject here (for reference)]
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Paul Jarc |
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Re: [50 character or so descriptive subject here (for reference)] |
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Thu, 06 Sep 2001 12:11:48 -0400 |
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Chet Ramey <chet@nike.ins.cwru.edu> wrote:
> Jobs started from the shell startup files are started without job
> control, as you discovered. This means that they're in the same
> process group as the shell. A keyboard SIGINT is sent to the current
> foreground process group by the tty driver, so the shell has to do
> something special to keep background non-job-control jobs from getting
> SIGINT. What it does is set the handlers for SIGINT and SIGQUIT to
> SIG_IGN when an asynchronous job is started without job control.
Why is this? Wouldn't it be easier to just use job control?
paul