Shell script ignoring / blocking signals

[Matthew Seaman]

On 13/05/2016 20:46, Andrew Wood via freebsd-questions wrote:
> If I run the script directly everything works fine, but if the script is run
> from inside another shell script the signals are blocked (set to ignore) as
> indicated by procstat.

> Can someone please explain to me why this is happening and how I unblock
> them?

Hmmm... There was a problem with signal masks being propagated across
exec() call for a while, right around the time 10.3-RELEASE was
happening.  This is where the problem was fixed for STABLE-10:

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=297789

and here for 10.3-RELEASE:

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=297204

For this to bite you, you'ld need to be running a version of the OS with
an affected version of tcsh, and your shell needs to be descended from a
tcsh process somehow (remember that tcsh is root's default shell, so
this is more common than you might think.)

	Cheers,

	Matthew


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