On 1/22/18 9:51 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 10:23:52AM -0700, [email protected] wrote:
>> 1) In a script, when you kill a process, you get a terminal style message
>> about the process being killed. See below for further description.
>
> Here's a simpler reproducer (no need for external symlinks or killall):
>
> wooledg:~$ cat foo
> #!/bin/bash
> sleep 100 & pid=$!
> kill $pid
> wait
> wooledg:~$ ./foo
> ./foo: line 4: 8615 Terminated sleep 100
>
> And I have to agree, a clean way to turn off job control type messages
> is something MANY people would love to have.
There are build-time options to disable reporting for SIGPIPE (which is
enabled in bash-4.4, so exits due to SIGPIPE aren't reported) and
SIGTERM (which is not). There isn't a runtime option to control it. I
will probably enable the option that doesn't report exits due to
SIGTERM in bash-5.0.
Chet
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