[ruby-core:40886] [ruby-trunk - Bug #5556] SIGHUP no longer ignored when sent to process group from a subprocess

Issue #5556 has been updated by Motohiro KOSAKI.


> Is this change intentional? I discovered it running RubySpec, where there are specs for the behavior of sending SIGHUP to the process group.

In short. Yes, intentional. SIGHUP ignorance is mimic of csh. but current almost modern shell nor other scripting language (e.g. perl) don't have such feature. and then, any userland programs don't depend on that a parent process ignore SIGHUP.

Do you have any usecase of SIGHUP? If you have real world usecause, you might be able to persuade us.

Thank you.

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Bug #5556: SIGHUP no longer ignored when sent to process group from a subprocess
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/5556

Author: Brian Ford
Status: Assigned
Priority: Normal
Assignee: Motohiro KOSAKI
Category: core
Target version: 2.0.0
ruby -v: ruby 2.0.0dev (2011-11-01 trunk 33596) [x86_64-darwin10.8.0]


Hi,

Prior to 2.0.0dev, this script:

sasha:rubinius brian$ cat process.rb 
puts "before system"
system("ruby -e 'Process.kill(:HUP, 0)'")
puts "after system"

would print the following:

sasha:rubinius brian$ ruby1.9.2 -v process.rb 
ruby 1.9.2p290 (2011-07-09 revision 32553) [x86_64-darwin10.8.0]
before system
after system

Basically, SIGHUP was ignored when sent from a subprocess. Presently, this is the result:

sasha:rubinius brian$ ruby -v process.rb 
ruby 2.0.0dev (2011-11-01 trunk 33596) [x86_64-darwin10.8.0]
before system
Hangup

The following issue may be related, but the explanation is in Japanese, so I cannot follow it: http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/4765

Is this change intentional? I discovered it running RubySpec, where there are specs for the behavior of sending SIGHUP to the process group.

Thanks,
Brian




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