On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote: > Technically, this is only a POSIX requirement on non-interactive shells. > Interactive shells may reset ignored signals on entry, effectively > starting life as if nothing had been inherited ignored. But I don't > know (without looking at the sources) whether bash explicitly modifies > inherited ignored signals in interactive shells.
Bash does not do it; ignored signals remain ignored in the subshell. I wanted to know if it would be possible to explicitly document it in the manpage or provide a non-standard extension to display signals that are 'not available to play with'. -- Siddhesh Poyarekar http://siddhesh.in
