On 2/1/11 3:52 AM, Marc Herbert wrote:
>>>> Is it a problem? Bash prints messages about signal-terminated processes --
>>>
>>>> Most people want to know when their jobs die
>>>
>>> ...except when they explicitly kill them.
>>
>> Then maybe the answer is to suppress the message when a process dies
>> due to SIGTERM, as well as SIGINT.
>>
>
> Since TERM is the default it seems to make sense to me. Could you
> mention this to the bash maintainer? :-)
I will bring it up with him. :-)
> Would the same also make sense for a couple other signals? I have
> always been confused by the respective semantics of signals (assuming
> there are well defined semantics in the first place).
SIGPIPE is already treated specially. There really aren't any others
that I would like to suppress.
Chet
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