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Re: [PATCH] Replacement for the sigs_to_ignore hack in timeout.c


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replacement for the sigs_to_ignore hack in timeout.c
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:15:56 -0600
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According to Jim Meyering on 10/10/2008 6:44 AM:
>> On the other hand, POSIX is explicit that mixing signal and sigaction is
>> not portable.  For that matter, now that gnulib provides a guaranteed
>> sigaction, why don't we just change all of coreutils to use it?  Affected
>> are: csplit, dd, install, ls, nohup, sort, tee, and timeout.
> 
> Good idea.
> I've wanted to get rid of "signal" uses for ages.
> Are you interested in doing it?

Yes, I'll tackle this.

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