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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Breaking "while read" also breaks the parent process Post 302437798 by chebarbudo on Friday 16th of July 2010 06:24:58 AM
Old 07-16-2010
Thanks pludi, I love your answer which is fairly new to me.
So basically you do:
Code:
trap waiting=0 USR1

Which I guess means: "waiting becomes 0 as soon as the signal USR1 is received"
And then you do:
Code:
kill -USR1 $ppid

Which I guess means: "Send signal USR1 to the process"
Can you confirm?
I read through man kill and I still have one question?
Are you strictly limited to the list of signals mentioned in the man page?
What makes you choose USR1?
I guess you need a safe signal that would not be easily used by other processes.

Thanks for your help
Santiago
 

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PMSIGNAL(1)						      General Commands Manual						       PMSIGNAL(1)

NAME
pmsignal - send a signal to one or more processes SYNOPSIS
$PCP_BINADM_DIR/pmsignal [-a|-l] [-n] [-s signal] [PID ...|name ...] DESCRIPTION
pmsignal provides a cross-platform event signalling mechanism for use with tools from the Performance Co-Pilot toolkit. It can be used to send a named signal (only HUP, USR1, TERM, and KILL are accepted). to one or more processes. The processes are specified using PID or the binary name (with -a option). If a signal is not specified, then the TERM signal will be sent. On Linux and UNIX platforms, pmsignal is a simple wrapper around the kill(1) command. On Windows, the is no direct equivalent to this mechanism, and so an alternate mechanism has been implemented - this is only honoured by PCP tools, however, not all Windows utilities. PCP ENVIRONMENT
Environment variables with the prefix PCP_ are used to parameterize the file and directory names used by PCP. On each installation, the file /etc/pcp.conf contains the local values for these variables. The $PCP_CONF variable may be used to specify an alternative configura- tion file, as described in pcp.conf(5). SEE ALSO
kill(1), killall(1), pcp.conf(5) and pcp.env(5). Performance Co-Pilot PCP PMSIGNAL(1)
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