Re: LYNX-DEV [Fwd: BoS: A vulnerability in Lynx (all versions)]

[Larry W. Virden, x2487]

>Other than that, it looks okay, except that using the numeric signal codes
>is more portable than using the mnemonics.

Did you perhaps mean to say:
>Other than that, it looks okay, except that using the mnemonis signal codes
>is more portable than using the numerics?

Because I've seen reports on comp.lang.unix and elsewhere regarding the fact
that signal _numbers_ change from OS to OS, and sometimes from release to 
release
within an OS, but that the mnemonics, at least as defined in the SVID or
POSIX, won't change.

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