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From: avolio@decuac.DEC.COM (Frederick M. Avolio)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: a little help with some csh source
Message-ID: <983@decuac.DEC.COM>
Date: Fri, 4-Jul-86 00:57:01 EDT
Article-I.D.: decuac.983
Posted: Fri Jul  4 00:57:01 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Jul-86 04:56:28 EDT
References: <5273@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>
Organization: ULTRIX Applications Center, MD
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Keywords: onintr, interrupts? kill signals? unsure...
Summary: intr catches INT signal

In article <5273@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>, gaynor@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Silver) writes:

> Hi.  I have some cshell source code that isn't performing quite
> the way I intend.  I have extracted the relevant code, below.
> ...
> Now, when the process is in the foreground, and I interrupt it
> it with ^C, it halts nicely, cleaning itself up.  However, when
> the process is in the background, and I send it a kill signal,
> it just plain rolls over and dies.  No clean up is performed

How do you kill it? Do you send it an SIGINT?  (kill -2 pid)  Or
just a "kill pid" which sends a SIGTERM (signal 15)?  It works if you
send an interrupt (kill -2 pid).

Use the Bourne shell for programming.... more control over such things
(it allows you to specify the signals to catch).
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