[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: posh and Autoconf
From: |
Ralf Wildenhues |
Subject: |
Re: posh and Autoconf |
Date: |
Mon, 7 Apr 2008 08:18:07 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) |
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