From: malte@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
To: rc@archone.tamu.edu
Subject: an improvement(?) suggestion and a question
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1992 06:54:55 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9203191254.AA02417@dahlie.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> (raw)
Hello *,
in rc's man page it says that $0 is set to name of the function during its
execution, so a naive thought came to my mind:
fn sighup sigint {
echo $progname was killed by $0 | mail somebody
exit 2
}
But this does not work since $0 when catching a signal is the name of
of the function rc was currently working on.
To change this, I have two suggestions:
1) Change the signal handler to place the signals name in $0
and allow $* to be referenced with negative indices, with
$*(-1) evaluating to the name of the function the present
function was called from, $*(-2) ...
This is a more general solution, or
2) Introduce a new special variable $signal which evaluates to
the name of the most current signal, so that the above example
will read
...
echo $progname was killed by $signal | mail somebody
...
How about that?
Now the question: Does anybody know of a more elegant way to temporarily
disable the '-e' feature (exit on failure)? The only way I can think of is
command || true
Malte.
next reply other threads:[~1992-03-19 12:56 UTC|newest]
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1992-03-19 12:54 malte [this message]
1992-03-19 13:25 ` Matthew Farwell
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