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Originally Posted by
Don Cragun
Obviously, the commands specified by the action in a trap action EXIT command won't be executed if the shell is terminated by a SIGKILL signal since the shell can't catch a SIGKILL to invoke the actions specified by appropriate traps.
True. This notable exception i have explicitly stated (in post #4, last line). It is because of the nature of this signal, which is not directed at the process but rather at the kernel. A process terminated by SIGKILL doesn't terminate itself, but rather is terminated by the kernel.
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If the standard is interpreted as you expect, then no system conforms to the standard because the standard doesn't allow an exception for being terminated by SIGKILL.
Actually what i tried to get across was: save for SIGKILL,
any other way of terminating a script (simple end, send a SIGTERM via "kill -15", press "CTRL-C", ...) will result in trap 0 (EXIT) being executed - not just using the "exit" built-in.
This is in fact as it should be because a script terminated by "kill -9" probably best leaves its temporary files for further inspection (one wouldn't terminate a script this way without some serious reason) and all other methods of ending a script are covered.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
bakunin
