* Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [03/05/06 23:30]: > On Wed, 3 May 2006, Moshe Kaminsky wrote: > > >* Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [03/05/06 19:30]: > >>On Wed, 3 May 2006, Moshe Kaminsky wrote: > >> > >>>You can use 'kill 0' to send a signal to your own process group. > >>>Something like this: > >>> > >>>#!/bin/sh > >>>trap 'kill 0;exit' TERM > >>>echo "before" > >>>( sleep 30; echo inside ) > >>>echo "after" > >>> > >>No use. trap will wait till the running child is completed, which is not > >>what > >>I want (as reply of Hans-Werner). > > > >Well, I just tried it, and it worked. > > > You mean the parent received the TERM signal while sleep'ing 30 and the > child terminated before the 30 seconds were through? > I intend to use the script with a long rsync, which must terminate when > receiving the signal. > I tested your script with 3000 instead of 30, and the script outputs > "after" and terminates when I send it a TERM; however, a process "sleep > 3000" still comes out in the output of ps auxf (as an orphan), I had to > kill it explicitly.
Funny, I just tried the same, and it worked. It also didn't print any
"after" (appropriately, since the sig handler includes 'exit'), and I
didn't find any sleep process. Maybe it was from some different
experiment?
Moshe
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