On Fri, 2015 Apr 24 14:29+0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> 
> Woah!
> 
> I’m amazed, flattered, impressed, puzzled, wondering, etc. at the same
> time. Please give me a bit to come up with a suitable reply, this
> deserves some time to think about, and I love your enthusiasm.

Oh, you're very kind!

mksh already has a remarkable track record of portability, and this
would be yet another feather in its cap. The build system, though
unconventional, turned out to be a lot easier to work with in the EBCDIC
environment than GNU Bash's.

By the way, there's one addendum I'd like to put here: It turns out that
NSIG=32 isn't quite right for z/OS. The system has a few more signals
than that, some of which appear to be unique:

    $ kill -l
     NULL HUP INT ABRT ILL POLL URG STOP FPE KILL BUS SEGV SYS PIPE ALRM
    TERM USR1 USR2 ABND CONT CHLD TTIN TTOU IO QUIT TSTP TRAP IOERR
    WINCH XCPU XFSZ VTALRM PROF DANGER TRACE DCE DUMP

    $ kill -l | tr ' ' '\n' | grep . | wc -l
         37 

    $ grep SIGDUMP /usr/include/signal.h
          #define SIGDUMP  39

(SIGDANGER, Will Robinson!)

Do take the time you need to chew through all those changes, of course.
I'll be happy to pick things up again at your convenience.

> >My ASCII-art .sig got a bad case of Times New Roman.
>
> My condolence! Rest assured I’m using FixedMisc [MirOS]¹ here.
>
> ① https://www.mirbsd.org/MirOS/dist/mir/Foundry/FixedMisc-20130517.tgz

Nice! If it weren't for the big Web-mail providers seeing fit to display
.signatures in variable-width fonts, there would still be a little ASCII
skunk down below ^_^


--Daniel


-- 
Daniel Richard G. || sk...@iskunk.org
My ASCII-art .sig got a bad case of Times New Roman.

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