kill -1 behaviour

Giuseppe Ciotta giuseppe at telvia.it
Thu Mar 9 09:33:42 UTC 2006


On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 06:20:00PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:

> > > Why do you want to use the ash built-in instead of the busybox
> > > command?
> >
> > Just because using the ash builtin, i hoped not to have the current
> > shell killed, since it's the shell itself sending the signal through
> > kill().
> 
> Ah, you have a point.  (Something to keep in mind with the nofork version of 
> bbsh.  And a bit tricky to write an automated regression test for...)

So the point is that ash currently forks when executing builtins (in
this case, kill) and this causes the shell to receive the signal?

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Giuseppe Ciotta
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