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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: signal handling,c-shell,hp840
Message-ID: <6813@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: 17 Dec 87 23:00:29 GMT
References: <7649@eddie.MIT.EDU> <6812@ncoast.UUCP>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Followup-To: comp.unix.wizards
Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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As quoted from <6812@ncoast.UUCP> by allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery):
+---------------
| I personally think that shells should have a way of ignoring signals for the
| duration of a command executing in the foreground.  However, I don't write
| shells (well, not *those* shells...) so my opinion is worthless.
+---------------

Just to cover my *ss:  it should be obvious that the behavior described above
in fact exists... for interactive shells (sh and csh), NOT for scripts.
-- 
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