Re: SIGINT handling during async functions

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/6/23 10:26 PM, Martin D Kealey wrote:

> By orthogonal, I meant these things should ideally be managed by separate
> controls:
>   1. ignoring signals (or not)
>   2. redirecting filedescriptors
>   3. immediately waiting on the process (or not)
>   4. creating new process groups
>   5. sending a signal to about-to-be orphaned children when the shell exits


> In particular I'm thinking of options along the lines of:
>
> nohup --no-redir --[block/default/keep]=[INT,QUIT,HUP,...]
>
> (exact names not important; hopefully --long-options are self-explanatory)

I feel like this will turn into something like daemon(1), but if someone
wants to take a shot -- using a new name, obviously -- let's talk about it.

Chet

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