Raphael Geissert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. Thanks! > ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- > > Subject: Re: trap / kill > Date: Wednesday 26 March 2008 > From: "Adam D. Barratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Raphael Geissert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 13:32 -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: >> On 25/03/2008, Adam D. Barratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] >> > As you mentioned <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------- -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
