atexit/signal for non-interactive jobs

[Cameron Simpson]

On 26May2010 20:19, kj <no.email at please.post> wrote:
| If I start the script interactively and after a few seconds (i.e.
| before it terminates) I hit Ctrl-C (which sends a TERM signal to
| the process), the wrapup function gets called as desired (although
| this action appears to be triggered by atexit, and not by the
| handler for SIGTERM, which apparently never gets called).

I hate to tell you this, but ^C sends SIGINT, not SIGTERM.
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