Re: Bash cannot kill itself?

[Clark J. Wang]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Pierre Gaston <pierre.gaston@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Clark J. Wang <dearvoid@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Jan Schampera <jan.schampera@web.de>
>> wrote:
>>
>> It just shows that $$ does what it should do, it reports the relevant PID
>> of
>> > the parent ("main") shell you use.
>>
>>
>> Then what's the problem with my script in my original mail? Seems like
>> Bash
>> does not handle the signal in a real-time way.
>>
>> the signal is delivered after the foreground process  "sleep 3600" exits,
> try with:
> "sleep 3600 & wait $!" instead
>
>
This works fine. Thanks.