On 9/9/16 2:00 PM, Matthew Giassa wrote:
> Good day,
>
> I've been doing some testing with the bash-prexec script which uses a
> DEBUG trap to issue user-supplied functions before executing each
> command (https://github.com/rcaloras/bash-preexec).
>
> Here is a minimal working example
> (https://github.com/rcaloras/bash-preexec/issues/25) which causes
> background subshells to kill the current session:
>
> # Causes login shells to logout
> # Look like bash versions > 4.2.46
> set -o functrace > /dev/null 2>&1
> no_op() { :;}
> trap 'no_op' DEBUG;
> # Any command in a subshell and background
> ( pwd ) &
>
> Is this a bug or issue in BASh itself, or is it simply a limitation of
> using pre-exec functionality?
I will look at this after bash-4.4 is released. If it's a bug with bash,
it's probably bash setting the terminal process group incorrectly when
running the DEBUG trap.
Chet
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