Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] perf record: Propagate exit status of a command line workload

[Namhyung Kim]

Hi Peter,

On Wed, 7 May 2014 19:35:32 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 07:19:14PM +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
>> > $ while :; do ./foo /bin/sleep 5 ; done
>> >
>> > and try and break out using ^C
>> >
>> What I usually do here is hit ^Z, then kill the job.
>> But I agree it would be nicer to handle this case automatically.
>
> So that used to work. And note that if you take out the signal(SIGINT,
> SIG_IGN) from the proglet, it will actually propagate the SIGINT and
> work as expected.
>
> So its only because perf handles SIGINT -- to be able to finish the
> stat/data record, that it doesn't. Which is why I propagated the signal
> the child got killed with.

Ah, okay.  But just propagating saved signal looks not enough since it's
overwritten by SIGCHLD as child exited.  I'll resend v5 soon.

Thanks,
Namhyung
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