Re: posh and Autoconf

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Russ,

* Russ Allbery wrote on Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 03:04:11AM CEST:
> 
> I believe posh was explicitly written as a POSIX compliance test suite for
> shell scripts, and hence doesn't implement any extensions other than those
> so ubiquitous that they're de facto standards.  There's discussion right
> now about whether numeric signals fall into that category (one problem is
> that only a limited set of those numbers are portable, since signal
> numbers are not the same in different versions of UNIX, although I believe
> the XSI extension spells out which ones are portable).

Then I suppose that will not improve the situation wrt. Autoconf-
generated scripts.  They trap 13 which is not listed as portable.
Does anybody know of a system where that is not SIGPIPE?  I've
so far thought of that as ubiquitous.

Cheers,
Ralf