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@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ scripts using Control-C
. Or have interactive applications
that don't behave right when sending SIGINT. Examples are emacs'es
that die on Control-g or shellscript statements that sometimes are
executed and sometimes not, apparently not determined by the user's
-intention.
+intention.
Now imagine the user hits C-c while a shellscript is executing its first program. The following programs receive SIGINT: program1 and -also the shell executing the script. program1 exits. +also the shell executing the script. program1 exits.
But what should the shell do? If we say that it is only the innermost's programs business to react on SIGINT, the shell will do @@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ that do not properly communicate the required information up to the calling program.
Unless a program messes with signal handling, the system does this -automatically. +automatically.
There are programs that want to exit on SIGINT, but they don't let the system do the automatic exit, because they want to do some @@ -425,7 +425,7 @@ Notes: special numeric value. People often assume this since the manuals for shells often list some return value for exactly this. But this is just a convention for your shell script. It does not work from one UNIX API -program to another. +program to another.
All that happens is that the shell sets the "$?" variable to a special numeric value for the convenience of your script, because your @@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ comments the scripts echo.