Bug 1019334

Summary: ksh monitor mode documented contrary to what it actually does
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Martin Kyral <mkyral>
Component: kshAssignee: Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Martin Kyral <mkyral>
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Version: 6.5CC: hhorak, jheger, jkejda
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Fixed In Version: ksh-20120801-16.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2014-10-14 07:04:13 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Martin Kyral 2013-10-15 13:56:44 UTC 
Description of problem:

on ksh-20120801-9.el6:
ksh -m test.ksh -> xterms survive the script
ksh test.ksh -> xterms die with the script

However, the man page says contrary: "The INT and QUIT signals for an invoked command are ignored if the command is followed by & and the monitor option is not active."

This seems to be documentation bug as:
1) the ksh monitor mode behavior has been discussed with David Korn
2) bash man page says: "...keyboard-generated signals such as SIGINT... Background processes are  those  whose process  group  ID  differs  from  the terminal’s; such processes are immune to keyboard-generated signals." which is the same as the fixed ksh do.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ksh-20120801-9.el6
Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2014-10-14 07:04:13 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2014-1381.html