# What should happen if non-interactive shell gets SIGINT? (sleep 1; echo Sending SIGINT to main shell PID; exec kill -INT $$) & # We create a child which exits with 0 even on SIGINT # (The complex command is necessary only if SIGINT is generated by ^C, # in this testcase even bare "sleep 2" would do because # in the testcase we don't send SIGINT *to the child*...) $THIS_SH -c 'trap "exit 0" SIGINT; sleep 2' # In one second, we (main shell) get SIGINT here. # The question is whether we should, or should not, exit. # bash will not stop here. It will execute next command(s). # The rationale for this is described here: # http://www.cons.org/cracauer/sigint.html # # Basically, bash will not exit on SIGINT immediately if it waits # for a child. It will wait for the child to exit. # If child exits NOT by dying on SIGINT, then bash will not exit. # # The idea is that the following script: # | emacs file.txt # | more cmds # User may use ^C to interrupt editor's ops like search. But then # emacs exits normally. User expects that script doesn't stop. # # This is a nice idea, but detecting "did process really exit # with SIGINT?" is racy. Consider: # | bash -c 'while true; do /bin/true; done' # When ^C is pressed while bash waits for /bin/true to exit, # it may happen that /bin/true exits with exitcode 0 before # ^C is delivered to it as SIGINT. bash will see SIGINT, then # it will see that child exited with 0, and bash will NOT EXIT. # Therefore we do not implement bash behavior. # I'd say that emacs need to put itself into a separate pgrp # to isolate shell from getting stray SIGINTs from ^C. echo Next command after SIGINT was executed