From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Trapping SIGCHLD
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2023 13:58:07 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7Z6fAdHsx-M7FXVV7bqQ0DyVXhdD5LJMwh3h8uox=AtPQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Found the first part of this sitting in my drafts folder from a year
and a half ago.
On Sat, Mar 26, 2022 at 11:10 AM Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> wrote:
>
> There may be a way to achieve keeping a set number of children around,
> by trapping SIGCHLD, but we would completely lose the exit status of
> the command.
Is it necessary to grab the exit status right away, or just to obtain
it eventually? If the CHLD trap did nothing but decrement a counter
every time a child exited, a new child could start right away,
increment the counter, and then (possibly much) later an explicit
"wait $childpid" could be done.
> There does not seem to be a way to retrieve the exit
> status of a command as soon as SIGCHLD is trapped
It's a bit round-about, but:
watchCHLD() {
setopt localoptions nonotify
trap 'print -p wakeup; trap - CHLD' CHLD
coproc read -E
read -p
}
waitchild () {
watchCHLD
wait $1
}
() { sleep 20; return 23 } & waitchild $!
print $?
If/when the patch from workers/52365 goes in, it'll be possible to get
the status of a specific PID in the CHLD trap itself. However, if
multiple children exit at the same time the CHLD handler may be called
only once, so some trickery with $jobstates is necessary. If this is
still of interest I'll try to work out details.
reply other threads:[~2023-12-03 21:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: [no followups] expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to='CAH+w=7Z6fAdHsx-M7FXVV7bqQ0DyVXhdD5LJMwh3h8uox=AtPQ@mail.gmail.com' \
--to=schaefer@brasslantern.com \
--cc=zsh-users@zsh.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.vuxu.org/mirror/zsh/
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).