Re: trap / kill
On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:49:47 -0700, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> said:
> Raphael Geissert <atomo64@gmail.com> writes:
>> 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.
> Please open a bug against debian-policy for this issue so that we can
> track the discussion. I think we should at least talk about whether
> to add signal numbers for kill/trap given how widely they're used in
> portable code like Autoconf and Libtool.
I would not have minded trying to fix 179 packages to use signal
names rather than numbers; but if Autoconf and Libtool use numbers,
then the problem grows larger.
Mind you, XSI extensions allow the use of numbers instead of
names for a limited set of signals, so if we allow XSI extensions, I
think we'll be fine.
I would certainly be more comfortable if we stick to POSIX
(including XSI) rather than just accepting any old number in trap.
manoj
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