Re: trap / kill
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:08:46 -0700, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> said:
> I think recent discussion on the libtool list revealed that libtool
> used numbers for one of the signals that XSI doesn't allow you to use
> signals for (SIGPIPE, I think it was, but I didn't go check).
> Ironically, libtool uses numbers rather than names for portability;
> older shells don't support names.
>> I would certainly be more comfortable if we stick to POSIX (including
>> XSI) rather than just accepting any old number in trap.
> We discussed including all of XSI, but there's a pile of other stuff
> in XSI that I think we decided that dash didn't actually implement. I
> don't remember the details, though.
OK. I guess we can just say that the trap function will follow
XSI, perhaps with a special exemption for SIGPIPE?
Or is something else being planned?
manoj
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