If grave accent ( ) shell command (whoami` in the following case) is called BEFORE Signal.trap,
the signals will not be handled, and ruby default handling behavior also did not work.
Basically, when I press Ctrl+C or send kill -TERM nothing happens - the process continues to run (or sleep(60) in that case).
This whoami call prevents the following signal handlers from working¶
Just comment this line and signal handling will be ok¶
Thank you for pointing #4777. I've just read it and found it similar.
As it #4777 in my case when I sent CONT signal, the previously ignored TERM is handled well.
I'm running test case on Ubuntu 11.04 (Linux foo 2.6.38-8-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 03:31:50 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux) and think the 2.6.38.4 you suggested is older than my kernel (don't know really how to relate -8 and .4 in version)
Now I've try to upgrade to the 2.6.39 kernel as Peter Sanford mentioning in #7 comment on issue #4777.
And, I think I've observed issue #4608 with 100% CPU load, but did not isolate then well.
The problem disappears after upgrade to Linux foo 2.6.39-0-generic #5~20110427-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 27 17:41:08 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux using kernel-ppa.