With Adam agreeing to make this private conversation public, please read below and comment. If necessary I don't mind a report to be filled against the package. ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: trap / kill Date: Wednesday 26 March 2008 From: "Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> To: Raphael Geissert <atomo64+debian@gmail.com> On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 13:32 -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: > On 25/03/2008, Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> wrote: [...] > > As you mentioned <87odap7ihc.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>, if you follow > > the thread from that message you may notice that a) I replied to that > > mail at the time :) and b) Clint replied pointing out that posh > > *doesn't* actually support signal numbers... (with the exception of 0, > > which is required by POSIX and shouldn't be caught by the tests). > > > > There's also #436438, which led to Clint removing support for kill -9 > > and trap 2 from posh. > > According to the last archive scan there are 179 packages affected out there. > I've strong doubts about how to solve the problem, so we either > request policy to require kill|trap -SIGN and kill|trap -[0-9] or we > annoy the maintainers of those 179 packages. I'm tempted to raise the issue with Russ (with his lintian and policy hats on) to gauge his opinions on requesting support for the XSI versions of kill and trap. > Btw, kill -s SIGNNAME pid does work in Debian's lenny bash. I should hope it does - that's required by POSIX. ;-) dash otoh does appear to happily support kill -9 and kill -KILL (tested in sid, but the package version is the same in lenny). dash(1) also features the use of a signal number in combination with trap, although it's SIGUSR1/30, which isn't even on the XSI list. [...] Cheers, Adam ------------------------------------------------------- -- Atomo64 - Raphael Please avoid sending me Word, PowerPoint or Excel attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Earth Hour 2008 - Take action! http://www.earthhour.org/user/xJKk
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