Re: trap and exit status

From: Michael Wang (mwang_at_unixlabplus.com)
Date: 07/29/03 

Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 17:43:07 GMT

In article <3F26AACE.9E221D42@ChironComputing.Com>,
scriptOmatic <ScriptOmatic@OpenSysMon.Com> wrote:
>Michael Wang wrote:
>>
>> I wonder if there is a solution in ksh (88 or 93) for following spec:
>>
>> - setup exit and signal trap
>> - retain the exit status as if no trap was set (exit status-128 or 256 is ok)
>> - differentiate exit and signal trap, as they will perform different tasks
>>
>> Thanks.
>> --
>> Michael Wang * http://www.unixlabplus.com/ * mwang@unixlabplus.com
>
>see the file "new" at ftp.opensysmon.com/pub/scripts/new.*
>there is a zip file

SIGINT=2
trap "Exit ${SIGINT};" ${SIGHUP} ${SIGINT} ${SIGTERM}

did not satisfy the spec "retain the exit status as if no trap was set". 

-- 
Michael Wang * http://www.unixlabplus.com/ * mwang@unixlabplus.com

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