Logcheck devel - Apr 2004 - #207795: logcheck: fails to clean up when interrupted

Hi all,

I applied the patch attached to bug #207795 to CVS yesterday, and then 
some hours later it dawned on me that the trap builtin might not be 
present in all shells, (and sure enough it isn't).

Does anyone know of a more portable way to handle signals in a shell
script?

-- 
Eric Evans
eevans at sym-link.com
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* Eric Evans <eevans at sym-link.com> [2004-04-27
15:34]:
> Subject: [Logcheck-devel] #207795: logcheck: fails to clean up when
interrupted
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 Can we get rid of that, please? I don't think that we really need it,
it just bloats the subject and moves the relevant data off the screen.
:-/  I am confident that all of us do sort lists out based on X-List*
headers.
> I applied the patch attached to bug #207795 to CVS yesterday, and then 
> some hours later it dawned on me that the trap builtin might not be 
> present in all shells, (and sure enough it isn't).
Package: bash
Essential: yes
Priority: required
Section: base

 I think it is that bad to make it bash only. Although it would of
course be helpful to make it shell-independent, I don't think that it is
a real problem when it is too hard to do.
> Does anyone know of a more portable way to handle signals in a shell
> script?
 Me not, sorry.  I even thought about suggesting using perl, but that
wouldn't buy us anything, bash is there already.

 So long,
Alfie
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I don't like the dependence on bash either, but I think it's more
important to have the patch in at this point.  I don't know of a way to an
onexit trap for other shells.  There is onintr for csh, but it's not the
same.  Hmm.

A perl/python rewrite would be nice too, but right now, I think it's more
important to get these bugs squashed.

-Todd

On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 03:34:45PM -0500, Eric Evans
wrote:
> I applied the patch attached to bug #207795 to CVS yesterday, and then 
> some hours later it dawned on me that the trap builtin might not be 
> present in all shells, (and sure enough it isn't).
> 
> Does anyone know of a more portable way to handle signals in a shell
> script?
> 
> -- 
> Eric Evans
> eevans at sym-link.com


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