Re: Implicit killing of subprocesses

[Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 08:59:52 -0700
Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Aug 28,  2:47pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> }
> } In this case, the NOHUP option is irrelevant --- because you don't have
> } job control (it's determined by the MONITOR option which is unset in
> } non-interactive shells), the shell doesn't send SIGHUP to processes on
> } exiting (without job control it doesn't have much idea of which
> } processes would need it).  So I think you get the effect you want.
> 
> I think the effect Rene wants is that the coproc job DOES get killed when
> the script exits?

Oh, right.


coproc cat
coproc_pid=$!

TRAPEXIT() { kill $coproc_pid }


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