Ksh sends a signal to itself if exit status is larger than 256 (256 + signal value)

Solution Verified - Updated 2019-04-18T20:57:30+00:00 -

Issue

On RHEL7 if a shell script calls exit with a value of 256 + {1..__SIGRTMAX} ksh would kill itself with exit_value - 256.
On RHEL8 this behaviour no longer exist.

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