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diff --git a/docs/sigint.htm b/docs/sigint.htm index 6fe76bbef..e230f4df7 100644 --- a/docs/sigint.htm +++ b/docs/sigint.htm @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ scripts using <code>Control-C</code>. Or have interactive applications that don't behave right when sending SIGINT. Examples are emacs'es that die on Control-g or shellscript statements that sometimes are executed and sometimes not, apparently not determined by the user's -intention. +intention. </td></tr><tr><th valign=top align=left>Required knowledge: </th> @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ just exit. <p>Now imagine the user hits C-c while a shellscript is executing its first program. The following programs receive SIGINT: program1 and -also the shell executing the script. program1 exits. +also the shell executing the script. program1 exits. <p>But what should the shell do? If we say that it is only the innermost's programs business to react on SIGINT, the shell will do @@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ that do not properly communicate the required information up to the calling program. <p>Unless a program messes with signal handling, the system does this -automatically. +automatically. <p>There are programs that want to exit on SIGINT, but they don't let the system do the automatic exit, because they want to do some @@ -425,7 +425,7 @@ Notes: special numeric value. People often assume this since the manuals for shells often list some return value for exactly this. But this is just a convention for your shell script. It does not work from one UNIX API -program to another. +program to another. <P>All that happens is that the shell sets the "$?" variable to a special numeric value for the convenience of your script, because your @@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ comments the scripts echo. <tr valign=top align=left> <td>IUE</td> <td>The shell executing a script exits immediately if it receives -SIGINT.</td> +SIGINT.</td> <td>4.4BSD ash (ash), NetBSD, FreeBSD prior to 3.0/22.8</td> <td>The editor session is lost and subsequent commands are not executed.</td> @@ -605,7 +605,7 @@ will further commands from the script be executed. </td> signal (either it had the default handler for SIGINT or it killed itself). </td> <td>bash (Linux /bin/sh), most commercial /bin/sh, FreeBSD /bin/sh -from 3.0/2.2.8.</td> +from 3.0/2.2.8.</td> <td>The editor continues as normal and subsequent commands are executed. </td> <td>The editor continues as normal and subsequent commands are @@ -615,7 +615,7 @@ child exits, but only if the child exited with signal status. If the child did a normal exit (even if it received SIGINT, but catches it), the script will continue. </td> <td>The child must be implemented right, or the user will not be able -to break shell scripts reliably.</td> +to break shell scripts reliably.</td> </tr> </table> |