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Last update: 1997-05-20
9945-2-131 _____________________________________________________________________________ Topic: shell signal handling Relevant Sections: 3.11 Defect Report: ----------------------- From: dgk@research.att.com Date: Tue, 11 Jul 95 16:08:45 EDT I wish to ask for an interpretation request of the Shell and Utilities standard, ISO/IEC 9945-2:1993 (ISO/IEC 9945-2:1993) related to signal handling by the shell. In section 3.11, page 149, lines 1302-11305, the standard states, "When a command is an asynchronous list, the shell shall prevent SIGQUIT and SIGINT signals from the keyboard from interrupting the command. Otherwise, signals shall have the values inherited by the shell process from the parent." This behavior differs from all historical shells. Historical shells prevent all SIGQUIT and SIGINT signals from interrupting the command by default. A command can enable these signals if they wish. The only way to implement this requirement on 9945-1 systems, is to run the background command in a separate process group; and even this won't work if the asynchronous list is brought into the foreground with a fg command. Thus, while the wording is clear, there doesn't seem to be a way to implement this and moreover, it differs from historical practice. I recommend changing this clause to the following: "When a command is an asynchronous list, the shell shall prevent SIGQUIT and SIGINT signals from the keyboard from interrupting the command when the list is in the background. The shell may set SIGQUIT and SIGINT to ignore for all processes in the list. Otherwise, signals shall have the values inherited by the shell process from the parent." David Korn research!dgk dgk@research.att.com Interpretation response ------------------------ The standard states the requirement for handling the SIGQUIT and SIGINT signals and conforming implementations must conform to this. However concerns have been raised about this which are being referred to the sponsor. Rationale ------------- None. Forwarded to Interpretations group: Jul 19 1995 Recirculated for 30 day review: Oct 19 1995 Finalised: Nov 20 1995