- Document trap's -l option and the behaviour of a missing action or a single

dash.
- Discourage the omission of the action.

PR:		70985 [1]
Submitted by:	Martin Kammerhofer
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Stefan Farfeleder 2005-12-08 21:18:59 +00:00
parent 3f0131f65b
commit 0673e800e9

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@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
.\" from: @(#)sh.1 8.6 (Berkeley) 5/4/95
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd December 4, 2005
.Dd December 8, 2005
.Dt SH 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -1957,6 +1957,7 @@ The first output line shows the user and system times for the shell
itself, the second one contains the user and system times for the
children.
.It Ic trap Oo Ar action Oc Ar signal ...
.It Ic trap Fl l
Cause the shell to parse and execute
.Ar action
when any specified
@ -1968,14 +1969,25 @@ In addition, the pseudo-signal
may be used to specify an action that is performed when the shell terminates.
The
.Ar action
may be null or omitted;
may be an empty string or a dash
.Pq Ar - ;
the former causes the specified signal to be ignored
and the latter causes the default action to be taken.
Omitting the
.Ar action
is another way to request the default action, for compatibility reasons this
usage is not recommended though.
When the shell forks off a subshell,
it resets trapped (but not ignored) signals to the default action.
The
.Ic trap
command has no effect on signals that were ignored on entry to the shell.
.Pp
Option
.Fl l
causes the
.Ic trap
command to display a list of valid signal names.
.It Ic type Op Ar name ...
Interpret each
.Ar name