Getting HUPed

Peter da Silva peter at ficc.ferranti.com
Wed Apr 3 04:15:33 AEST 1991


In article <c8C901q64a9q00 at amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> krs at amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Kris Stephens [Hail Eris!]) writes:
> 	trap 'echo "signalled"' 0
> 	trap 'echo "signalled"; exit' 1 2 3 14 15

No, you should do:

	trap 'echo "signalled"; exit' 0
	trap exit 1 2 3 14 15

Because (at least on some versions of the shell) the exit in the trap N
triggers the trap 0, and you will get two "signalled" messages.
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