From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: process substitution bug with set -e?
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 18:53:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131016185351.7dfa7d7e@pws-pc.ntlworld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <131015072947.ZM1984@torch.brasslantern.com>
On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 07:29:47 -0700
Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> I think we should be able to say something more general about the behavior
> of "exit" with respect to asynchronous jobs, and that ERR_EXIT has the
> same behavior. There's a little about this in the "Jobs" section but it
> only references explicitly backgrounded jobs and the HUP signal/option,
> not about implicitly asynchronous jobs.
>
> For example, note that multios and process substitutions are "disowned"
> in the sense that they don't get HUP'd (they also don't get TTOU'd, but
> aren't able to read from the terminal as far as I can tell [I/O error]).
Please provide any further patches that seem a good idea on top of this.
diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo b/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo
index 2cc33d2..1d9fe68 100644
--- a/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo
+++ b/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo
@@ -595,6 +595,11 @@ is specified, use the exit status from the last command executed.
pindex(IGNORE_EOF, use of)
An EOF condition will also cause the shell to exit, unless
the tt(IGNORE_EOF) option is set.
+
+See notes at the end of
+ifzman(the section JOBS in in zmanref(zshmisc))\
+ifnzman(noderef(Jobs & Signals)) for some possibly unexpected interactions
+of the tt(exit) command with jobs.
)
findex(export)
item(tt(export) [ var(name)[tt(=)var(value)] ... ])(
diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/jobs.yo b/Doc/Zsh/jobs.yo
index 3baf77f..d939501 100644
--- a/Doc/Zsh/jobs.yo
+++ b/Doc/Zsh/jobs.yo
@@ -115,3 +115,18 @@ The shell itself always ignores the tt(QUIT) signal.
Otherwise, signals have the values
inherited by the shell from its parent
(but see the tt(TRAP)var(NAL) special functions in noderef(Functions)).
+
+cindex(exiting shell, and asynchronous jobs)
+cindex(asynchronous jobs, and exiting shell)
+cindex(jobs, asynchronous, and exiting shell)
+Certain jobs are run asynchronously by the shell other than those
+explicitly put into the background; even in cases where the shell
+would usually wait for such jobs, an explicit tt(exit) command
+or exit due to the option tt(ERR_EXIT) will cause the shell to
+exit without waiting. Examples of such asynchronous jobs are
+process substitution, see
+ifzman(the section PROCESS SUBSTITUTION in the zmanref(zshexpn) manual page)\
+ifnzman(noderef(Process Substitution)), and the handler processes for
+multios, see
+ifzman(the section MULTIOS in the zmanref(zshmisc) manual page)\
+ifnzman(the section Multios in noderef(Redirection)).
diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/options.yo b/Doc/Zsh/options.yo
index 9055215..3c6ea63 100644
--- a/Doc/Zsh/options.yo
+++ b/Doc/Zsh/options.yo
@@ -1553,6 +1553,11 @@ the trap. If the option tt(DEBUG_BEFORE_CMD) is set,
as it is by default, and the option tt(ERR_EXIT) is found to have been set
on exit, then the command for which the tt(DEBUG) trap is being executed is
skipped. The option is restored after the trap exits.
+
+Exiting due to tt(ERR_EXIT) has certain interactions with asynchronous
+jobs noted in
+ifzman(the section JOBS in in zmanref(zshmisc))\
+ifnzman(noderef(Jobs & Signals)).
)
pindex(ERR_RETURN)
pindex(NO_ERR_RETURN)
--
Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
Web page now at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/p.w.stephenson/
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-16 17:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-14 12:41 Vincent Lefevre
2013-10-14 13:48 ` Peter Stephenson
2013-10-14 15:08 ` Vincent Lefevre
2013-10-14 16:23 ` Bart Schaefer
2013-10-14 16:28 ` Peter Stephenson
2013-10-14 17:47 ` Bart Schaefer
2013-10-15 8:42 ` Peter Stephenson
2013-10-15 14:29 ` Bart Schaefer
2013-10-16 17:53 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
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