Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 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. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
