Re: stopping "wait" in (sub)script ?

["Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 15, 11:07am, Peter Stephenson wrote:
} Subject: Re: stopping "wait" in (sub)script ?
}
} > > > $ for i in `cat ss`
} > 
} > OK, now I got it.  The fix looks really simple, and I do hope that this is
} > really al that's needed.
} 
} This doesn't seem to fix this particular bug here, it's still
} uninterruptible.  On the other hand, replacing `cat ss` with $(<ss)
} has always worked.  That doesn't leave much code in getoutput() to
} make the difference.

I think the problem must be in signal_suspend().  The only difference
between the two cases in getoutput() is that $(<ss) does an explicit
child_unblock(), whereas `cat ss` does it implicitly via child_suspend(0).

If you go look at signal_suspend(), you'll find a lot of #ifdefs for the
assorted signal handling variations.  I'll bet this problem is specific
to one or more of those variations.

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