In article <20010709232913.A26043@noc.untraceable.net>,
Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net> wrote:

>it would be nice if sh was taught not to die unceremoniously like
>this.  the mutt people made sense in their argument.  a quick check of
>solaris and freebsd (as two random base points) shows that their
>versions of sh (all of /usr/xpg4/bin/sh, /usr/bin/sh, and /sbin/sh
>under solaris) do not die under the simple test:
>
>     % cat > sigs << EOF
>     $SIG{'QUIT'} = 'IGNORE';
>     sleep(10);         
>     EOF         
>     % sh -c 'perl sigs'
>     (repeatedly pound on control-\ here)
>
>yet netbsd does.

Your argument makes a lot of sense to me. I think that we should look
into fixing this. What does posix say about this?

christos