Chet Ramey wrote:
> Andreas Schwab wrote:
> "Clark J. Wang" writes:
> > > It does not work as I expected. The running script was not
> > > terminated after 5 seconds. So what's wrong here?
> >
> > The shell is waiting for foreground process (sleep) to finish. During
> > this time no other process
> > It does not work as I expected. The running script was not terminated after
> > 5 seconds. So what's wrong here?
>
> The shell is waiting for foreground process (sleep) to finish. During
> this time no other process will be started by the shell.
Yes. The trap is not taken until after the fo
"Clark J. Wang" writes:
> I have a bash script like this:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> trap 'echo killed by SIGALRM; exit 1' ALRM
>
> function wait_kill()
> {
> sleep 5
> kill -ALRM $$
> }
>
> wait_kill &
>
> sleep 3600
>
> ### END OF THE SCRIPT ###
>
> It does not work as I expected. The running
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Pierre Gaston wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Clark J. Wang wrote:
>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Jan Schampera
>> wrote:
>>
>> It just shows that $$ does what it should do, it reports the relevant PID
>> of
>> > the parent ("main") shell you
