Re: bizarre trap behavior while reading a file

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/28/11 11:39 AM, tytus64 wrote:

>> There is a bash process that is forked to execute the `while read ...'
>> in the first pipeline loop.  It has to hang around the whole time, so it
>> can run the while loop and exit with the correct status.  If you send it
>> a SIGHUP with `killall bash', it will exit.
>>
> 
> Thanks for all the answers. I think I understand the problem now. I wonder
> though if there is any way to disable default HUP handling int the
> subprocess executing the loop?

Sure.  Trap it to SIG_IGN: `trap "" SIGHUP'.


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