Bug#477240: Please clarify status of XSI extensions for kill and trap

[Raphael Geissert]

On Thursday 15 July 2010 11:53:03 Russ Allbery wrote:
> diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
> index 6c770fd..d694fd2 100644
> --- a/policy.sgml
> +++ b/policy.sgml
> @@ -7460,7 +7460,19 @@ fname () {
>  </example>
>             must be supported and must set the value of <tt>c</tt> to
>             <tt>delta</tt>.
> -            </item>
> +         </item>
> +         <item>The XSI extension to <prgn>kill</prgn> allowing <tt>kill
> +           -<var>signal</var></tt>, where <var>signal</var> is either
> +           the name of a signal or one of the numeric signals listed in
> +           the XSI extension (0, 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 14, and 15), must be
> +           supported if <prgn>kill</prgn> is implemented as a shell
> +           built-in.
> +         </item>
> +         <item>The XSI extension to <prgn>trap</prgn> allowing numeric
> +           signals must be supported.  In addition to the signal
> +           numbers listed in the extension, which are the same as for
> +           <prgn>kill<prgn> above, 13 (SIGPIPE) must be allowed.
> +         </item>
>         </list>
>         If a shell script requires non-SUSv3 features from the shell
>         interpreter other than those listed above, the appropriate shell

Seconded.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer
www.debian.org - get.debian.net

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