On 7/29/12 12:55 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 7/28/12 12:38 PM, Maarten Billemont wrote:
>> Trapping on EXIT is a really convenient way of cleaning up after yourself
>> when your script ends.
>
> I agree that the EXIT trap should work on {} asynchronous subshells, and I
> will make sure that the next version of bash does this.
>
> However, the two examples you gave don't really differ in that respect. If
> you take out the `kill', neither interactive nor non-interactive shells run
> the exit trap. The difference is how interactive and non-interactive
> shells handle SIGTERM. That's the place I'll have to look.
It's a problem with interactive shells wanting to reinitialize handling of
terminating signals in subshells. It will be fixed in the next release.
Chet
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