Re: PATCH to support dotted base directory names

Andreas Schwab (schwab@suse.de)
09 Jul 1999 17:29:32 +0200

"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:

|> On 9 Jul 1999, Andreas Schwab wrote:
|>
|> > "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:
|> >
|> > |> Now, if you substitute /bin/bash as init, it does not trap a call to
|> > |> exit(), so you can exit which is not what you would want init to do.
|> > |> Further, the signals are not set up by the shell in the same way they
|> > |> are set up by init so you will find that ^C doesn't work nor does
|> > |> ^S/^Q, etc.
|> >
|> > This has nothing to do with the signal setup, but rather with the fact
|> > that there is no controlling terminal yet.
|>
|> This has everything to do with the signal setup, as stated. The notion
|> of a 'controlling terminal' in fact uses signals.

You never get terminal signals if you have no controling terminal. It's a
matter of how you open the terminal connection. The shell does not do
any different signal setup as init.

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schwab@suse.de                                   completely different."
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