From 2533d0df20e871da156d80078b79d93c8c02f0ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Herbert Xu Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 13:59:42 +0800 Subject: [BUILTIN] Make trap signal name/number errors non-fatal. On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:23:34AM +0000, Peter Kjellerstedt wrote: > > there seems to be a problem with the trap implementation in dash > (tested with 0.5.4 and 0.5.5.1). If I specify a signal which is not > supported, the shell unconditionally aborts. E.g., I had expected > the following to print foo (like bash and zsh do): > > # dash -c 'trap "echo trap executed" UNKNOWNSIGNAL || echo "foo"' > trap: 1: UNKNOWNSIGNAL: bad trap > > This means I cannot write a construct like the following to take > advantage of the ERR signal which is present in some shells: > > trap "echo ERR trap executed" ERR 2>/dev/null || : > > I also checked the POSIX documentation, and quoting from > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/trap.html > (exit status): "For both interactive and non-interactive shells, > invalid signal names [XSI] [Option Start] or numbers [Option End] > shall not be considered a syntax error and do not cause the shell > to abort." This patch replaces sh_error with a outfmt + return 1 in trapcmd so that these errors are no longer fatal. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu --- ChangeLog | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'ChangeLog') diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index d57ebc1..bc36ab1 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2010-04-02 Herbert Xu + + * Make trap signal name/number errors non-fatal. + 2010-04-02 maximilian attems * Use TMPDIR in mkbuiltins. -- cgit 1.4.1