Re: Getting information about dead processes

Re: Getting information about dead processes

[Leah Neukirchen]

Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com> writes:

> On Tue, 4 Jul 2017 13:00:54 +0200
> Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org> wrote:
>> in $? or $status we can find the exit code of the last process, but I
>> can't see a way to find more detail about the exit status.  The job
>> layer has access to WIFSIGNALED and WTERMSIG, and displays if a
>> process died due to a signal.  How can I access this data from a zsh
>> script/interactive session?
>
> If the process died due to a signal, then 128 is added to the signal
> value.  So 130 indicates a process died to to signal 2, almost certainly
> SIGINT.  The status value itself would be irrelevant, as the process
> didn't get the chance to return one.

Yes, but that is not distinguishable from a process just returning 141
or something else above 128.

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