I have been working on several items as I am using bash to configure
systems.
I started wanting to log the output of my scripts. Then I added a prefixed
message construct so detailed logs could be summarized without extraneous
debugging information (I have written an extract program using c in th
The read builtin could return an exit status of (128|SIGALRM) in two
circumstances:
1. If a signal is caught during the read syscall, then either the read
system call returns -1 with EINTR and the error is reported. (Otherwise it
must return a positive byte count, causing the built-in continues un
