Elliott Forney <id...@cs.colostate.edu> writes: > I guess my question is "can more than one trap run simultaneously?" > The more I think about it though, this is probably not possible. It > looks like the trap doesn't run in a subprocess
Traps are executed at command boundaries. > and I presume traps are blocked inside of other traps. Traps can be nested: $ bash -c "trap 'echo INT; sleep 10; exit 2' INT; trap 'echo QUIT' QUIT; sleep 10"; echo $? ^CINT ^\QUIT 2 Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."