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bug#56239: 28.1; Cannot send signals by name to inferior process by call
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#56239: 28.1; Cannot send signals by name to inferior process by calling signal-process interactively |
Date: |
Mon, 27 Jun 2022 14:24:59 +0300 |
> Cc: 56239@debbugs.gnu.org, Daniel Martín <mardani29@yahoo.es>
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 12:41:29 +0200
>
> Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:
>
> > Unfortunately, it's not such simple. signal-process can also deliver a
> > signal to a process running on a remote host. The signal names on that
> > host might differ from the signal names on the local host, collected by
> > Fsignal_names.
> >
> > How do we want to handle this? I don't see a simple solution, because
> > the file name handler machinery is not in use here.
>
> I think users will just have to use numbers in those cases (which is
> still possible). I.e., the symbol names are a convenience where it
> works, but if not, then users can't use those.
I agree, but there's a larger problem here: signal numbers that
correspond to given names are also system-dependent. That is, SIGINT
could be 2 on one system and 295 on another. So if you type
M-x signal-process RET INT RET
you could send to the process a signal number that will be interpreted
on the remote host as some completely different signal.
So I think we should at least document that symbolic names should be
used for remote processes only very carefully, if at all.