I've tried John's suggestion and it helps but is not enough. I believe I would
have to trap the outer make invocation as well. Unfortunately wrapping make in
a script just to be able to to use ctrl-\ is probably not worth it.
I'm instead using jstack though it can be harder to get timing right.
Mike
diff -r b88cdacd404a common/bin/logger.sh
--- a/common/bin/logger.sh Tue Jan 28 20:09:25 2014 +0000
+++ b/common/bin/logger.sh Thu Feb 20 10:33:46 2014 -0800
@@ -41,5 +41,5 @@
trap "rm -rf \"$RCDIR\"" EXIT
LOGFILE=$1
shift
-(exec 3>&1 ; ("$@" 2>&1 1>&3; echo $? > "$RCDIR/rc") | tee -a $LOGFILE 1>&2 ;
exec 3>&-) | tee -a $LOGFILE
+(exec 3>&1 ; ( trap '' QUIT; "$@" 2>&1 1>&3; echo $? > "$RCDIR/rc") | sh -c
"trap '' QUIT; tee -a $LOGFILE 1>&2" ; exec 3>&-) | sh -c "trap '' QUIT; tee -a
$LOGFILE"
exit `cat "$RCDIR/rc"`
On Feb 6 2014, at 17:50 , John Rose <john.r.r...@oracle.com> wrote:
> On Feb 4, 2014, at 10:48 PM, David Holmes <david.hol...@oracle.com> wrote:
>
>> I don't see how make and all the intervening shells could know to pass the
>> signal through to the JVM process. ??
>
> IIRC they don't need to pass the signal, because the signal goes from the tty
> to the current group of processes. A waiting shell or make probably
> disregards such signals and pays more attention to the response to the thing
> it is waiting for. In this case, perhaps the "tee" command gets sick from
> the signal and causes the pipeline to fail. Perhaps the "tee" command needs
> to be wrapped in some kind of trappy thing like: sh -c 'trap "" 2 3; tee'
>
> — John
