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From: bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Shell scripts - getting parent status in read
Message-ID: <849@twwells.uucp>
Date: 23 Apr 89 09:17:19 GMT
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Reply-To: bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells)
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Try enabling SIGPIPE in your parent before calling the shell script.
When the parent dies, the children trying to read from pipes set up
by the parent should then get a signal. You might have to use a trap
command in the shells, though.

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Bill                            { uunet | novavax } !twwells!bill