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Re: Signals ignored by a shell cannot be handled by its sub-shells?


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: Signals ignored by a shell cannot be handled by its sub-shells?
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 09:34:09 +0200
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"Clark J. Wang" <dearvoid@gmail.com> writes:

> For example:
>
> [bash-4.2.8] # cat a.sh
> trap '' TERM
> bash b.sh
> [bash-4.2.8] # cat b.sh
> echo "Now in $0 ..."
> trap sig_TERM TERM

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#trap

"Signals that were ignored on entry to a non-interactive shell cannot be
trapped or reset, although no error need be reported when attempting to
do so. An interactive shell may reset or catch signals ignored on entry."

Andreas.

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