On 3/25/11 5:25 PM, tytus64 wrote: > > I started execution of the following script and and repeatedly sent a SIGHUP > to it from another shell. If SIGHUP is received within the first while loop > the loop terminates with "wc -l" printing fewer than 4158 lines. If SIGHUP > is received within the second while loop the loop still continues and the > second "wc -l" prints always 4158 lines. > > I am really curious why is this happening!!!
You don't say anything about what version of bash you're using or what OS you're on, but I couldn't reproduce it. I modified the script to print $$ at the beginning, so I knew which pid to hit, and hammered it with kill -HUP pid from another terminal. Each loop consumed and wrote 4158 lines. I tried it on both Mac OS X and RHEL 4 with the same results. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/