cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Re: Re: [ast-developers] ksh93 alpha update --------
> The contra argument is that any person can do a kill -CHLD $victimpid > and scripts should guard themselves against such actions. The 2nd > contra argument is that scripts should use the output of the jobs > builtin to check for changes - if there isn't any change then nothing > should happen. > > The shell will ignores any CHLD that does not produce a change in status for any process. It does check for STOP and CONTINUE but currently these do not trigger the trap. I think that it makes sense to trigger the trap in these cases, but my concern is backward compatibility. I plan on trying to add these and see what breaks. David Korn [email protected] _______________________________________________ ast-developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-developers
