Bash, tar, and broken pipe

[Chet Ramey]

In article <1147 at mwtech.UUCP> martin at mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel) writes:

>>	_exit(128+sig);
>	^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  rather: kill(getpid(), sig); ????

You're right, but you have to deal with all the differences between the
BSD/Posix signals and the Sys V signals.  Simply replacing the call to exit
with the kill signal will cause an infinite loop.

>Hmm, I know that the shell encodes the information that some program
>was terminated by a signal this way in $? - but the other way round
>should also be true? On which system and for which shell?

No system, and for no shell.  I made a mistake.

Chet
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