On 4/13/18 11:29 PM, Martijn Dekker wrote: > Op 14-04-18 om 03:49 schreef Chet Ramey: >> On 4/10/18 5:56 AM, Martijn Dekker wrote: >>> It seems odd that the RETURN trap would be triggered while a RETURN trap >>> action is still being executed. Might it be better to temporarily >>> deactivate the effect of '-o functrace' while a RETURN trap action is being >>> executed? >> >> Well, trap handlers are recursive, in the sense that you can execute a trap >> on signal X from a signal X trap handler. > > I'm not sure how that would happen. Isn't a signal blocked while executing > its trap handler?
No. Since trap handlers are not executed in a signal handler context, there's no reason to block signals while a trap handler is running. Bash doesn't generally allow a trap handler for signal X to run while a trap handler for signal X is executing, but other shells do. This (bash not allowing this trap recursion generally) has been reported as a bug in the past. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/