Re: nohup feature request / Please fwd to Jim Meyering

[Phillip Susi]

Micah Cowan wrote:
> Untrue, actually: _handling_ the signals would not handle them in the
> exec'd child (for obvious reasons), but POSIX requires blocked signals
> to remain blocked after an exec.
>
> Try the following:
>
> ----
> #!/bin/sh
> trap "" TSTP
> exec yes > /dev/null
> ----
>
> and then try suspending the program with ^Z, with and without the "trap"
> line commented out. :)

Interesting... I thought that exec reset all signal handlers to their 
default behavior...