"Brian K. White" <[email protected]> writes:
> I would have thought the portability concern would be the meanings of
> the numbers more than the allowance of numbers in the syntax.
> Even within a single OS linux, even within a single version, the
> meanings of signals above 16 differ between platforms/architectures.
The meanings of signal numbers 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 14, and 15 are
defined by POSIX:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/kill.html
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/trap.html
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