RS> I was thinking of moving the signal registration, for the signals which
RS> are ignored, into one of the init routines.

RS> Does that sound reasonable? It is a change in behavior for the agent
RS> library..... Though there is a good argument for it, as it does
RS> cause a crash for a not-unreasonable error condition.


WH> I would argue it was a bug anyway so it'd be tempting to put it in 5.2.1
WH> or so if not 5.1.mumble.


DS> Like what the man said.
DS> I'd probably be a bit more hesitant about 5.1.x,
DS> but it seems fine for 5.2.1.
 
Robert> Hmmm.. why the difference between 5.1.x and 5.2.x?

The 5.1.x line is established, (reasonably) stable code.
The 5.2.x line is new, relatively untested code.

As such, I'm much happier about changing (questionable) behaviour
in the 5.2 line than I am with the older releases.  If you use
early releases of a particular feature, you *expect* things to change
as they bed down.   If you're using "high-numbered" releases, then
such changed are more likely to come as a shock.....

So as a general rule, changes that might be OK (or borderline) for x.y.1
or x.y.2 releases, may well not be appropriate for x.y.6 and beyond.
Does that make sense?

Dave



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