Unlike in Bash or Zsh, this asynchronous job ignores SIGINT, despite builtin trap explicitly resetting the SIGINT handler. dash -c '( trap - INT; sleep inf ) &' POSIX Section 2.11 on [Signals] and Error Handling says about background execution: > If job control is disabled (see the description of set -m) when > the shell executes an asynchronous list, the commands in the list > shall inherit from the shell a signal action of ignored (SIG_IGN) > for the SIGINT and SIGQUIT signals. Builtin [trap] has this requirement: > Signals that were ignored on entry to a non-interactive shell > cannot be trapped or reset, although no error need be reported when > attempting to do so. Apparently this only applies to signals that were inherited as ignored, not to the special case of SIGINT/SIGQUIT begin ignored in asynchronous subshells. Make it so. This means that either of trap - INT; trap - QUIT set -i in a backgrounded subshell will now un-ignore SIGINT and SIGQUIT. [Signals]: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html [trap]: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#trap {{{ Test cases: shell=src/dash set -e SubshellWith() { parent_pid=$(setsid "$shell" -c "( $1; sleep 99 ) </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 & echo \$\$") sleep 1 subshell_pid=$(ps -o pid= -$parent_pid | tail -n 1) } trap 'kill -TERM -$parent_pid 2>/dev//null ||:' EXIT # Tear down after a failure. echo Scenario 0: '"set -i"' makes a subshell un-ignore SIGINT. SubshellWith 'set -i' kill -INT $subshell_pid ! ps -p $subshell_pid | grep sleep || exit 1 kill -TERM -$parent_pid 2>/dev//null ||: # Tear down. echo Scenario 1: resetting SIGINT handler. SubshellWith 'trap - INT' kill -INT -$parent_pid # kill the whole process group since that's the my use case ! ps -p $subshell_pid | grep sleep || exit 1 kill -TERM -$parent_pid 2>/dev//null ||: # Tear down. echo Scenario 2: ignoring SIGINT. SubshellWith 'trap "" INT' kill -INT $subshell_pid ps -p $subshell_pid | grep sleep || exit 1 kill -TERM -$parent_pid 2>/dev//null ||: # Tear down. }}} {{{ Backstory/motivation: The Kakoune[1] editor likes to run noninteractive shell commands that boil down to mkfifo /tmp/fifo ( trap - INT make ) >/tmp/fifo 2>&1 & On Control-C, the editor sends SIGINT to its process group, which should terminate the subshell running make[2]. We experimented with sending SIGTERM instead but found issues, specifically if the editor is invoked (without exec) from a wrapper script, sending SIGTERM to the whole process group would kill the wrapper script, which in turn makes it send SIGTERM to the editor, which then terminates. [1]: https://kakoune.org/ [2]: https://lists.sr.ht/~mawww/kakoune/%3C20240307135831.1967826-3-aclopte@xxxxxxxxx%3E }}} --- src/trap.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/trap.c b/src/trap.c index cd84814..dbf81ea 100644 --- a/src/trap.c +++ b/src/trap.c @@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ ignoresig(int signo) signal(signo, SIG_IGN); } if (!vforked) - sigmode[signo - 1] = S_HARD_IGN; + sigmode[signo - 1] = S_IGN; } -- 2.44.0.368.gc75fd8d815