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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Strange SIGINT propagation between Parent/Child sh scripts Post 302362132 by danie.ludick on Thursday 15th of October 2009 04:38:19 AM
Old 10-15-2009
Thank you for you quick reply, your advice worked.

I understand what you mean about the children of the children (i.e. the sleep processes) not getting the signal. I tried the following:

Changed "child1" to:
Code:
#!/bin/sh

echo starting proc 1, pid=$$
sleep 600 &
pid1=$!
trap "kill $pid1" exit INT
wait

and then "child2" to:
Code:
#!/bin/sh

echo starting proc 2, pid=$$
sleep 600 &
pid1=$!
trap "kill $pid1" exit INT
wait

so that the INT signals gets propagated to the spawned "sleep" children of each. When I now send a SIGINT to the original parent script, I see that the sleep processes are killed active. I think this solves the problem.
 

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NAME

       kill - send a signal to a process

SYNOPSIS

       kill [options] <pid> [...]

DESCRIPTION

       The  default  signal  for kill is TERM.  Use -l or -L to list available signals.  Particularly useful signals include HUP, INT, KILL, STOP,
       CONT, and 0.  Alternate signals may be specified in three ways: -9, -SIGKILL or -KILL.  Negative PID values may be  used  to  choose  whole
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              Specify the signal to be sent.  The signal can be specified by using name or number.  The behavior of signals is explained  in  sig-
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