Alternative signal handling

#!/bin/bash

# a function to repeatedly print the content in "in.txt"
function print_forever() {
    while [ 1 ];
    do
        cat "$1"
        sleep 1
    done
}

echo run the hello binary
print_forever in.txt | ./hello &
pid=$!
echo "background process $pid started"

trap_ctrlc() {
    echo -e "\n\ntrap_ctrlc\n\n"
}

trap trap_ctrlc INT

# wait for all background processes to terminate
wait
echo first wait=$?
kill $pid
echo -e "\nkill=$? (0 = success)\n"
wait $pid
echo "wait=$? (the exit status from the background process)"