Bug#477240: Please clarify status of XSI extensions for kill and trap

2010-07-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery writes: > Good point. Here's a new patch. (This doesn't apply to trap because I > don't think trap can work without having it implemented as a shell > built-in.) I've now merged this change for the next release. > diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml > index 6c770fd..d694fd2 10

Bug#477240: Please clarify status of XSI extensions for kill and trap

2010-07-22 Thread Raphael Geissert
On Thursday 15 July 2010 11:53:03 Russ Allbery wrote: > diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml > index 6c770fd..d694fd2 100644 > --- a/policy.sgml > +++ b/policy.sgml > @@ -7460,7 +7460,19 @@ fname () { > > must be supported and must set the value of c to > delta. > -

Bug#477240: Please clarify status of XSI extensions for kill and trap

2010-07-15 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On 07/15/2010 06:53 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" writes: As we have in "test" item, I think we should add ",if implemented as a shell built-in," also for the kill command. Good point. Here's a new patch. (This doesn't apply to trap because I don't think trap can work with

Bug#477240: Please clarify status of XSI extensions for kill and trap

2010-07-15 Thread Russ Allbery
"Giacomo A. Catenazzi" writes: > On 05.07.2010 01:02, Raphael Geissert wrote: >> On Sunday 04 July 2010 00:04:20 Russ Allbery wrote: >>> Yeah, I was trying too hard to avoid a problem which doesn't really >>> exist. Here's an updated patch. >>> diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml >>> index b

Bug#477240: Please clarify status of XSI extensions for kill and trap

2010-07-15 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On 05.07.2010 01:02, Raphael Geissert wrote: On Sunday 04 July 2010 00:04:20 Russ Allbery wrote: Yeah, I was trying too hard to avoid a problem which doesn't really exist. Here's an updated patch. diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml index bad28af..8b715d0 100644 --- a/policy.sgml +++ b/poli

Bug#477240: Please clarify status of XSI extensions for kill and trap

2010-07-04 Thread Raphael Geissert
On Sunday 04 July 2010 00:04:20 Russ Allbery wrote: > Yeah, I was trying too hard to avoid a problem which doesn't really > exist. Here's an updated patch. > > diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml > index bad28af..8b715d0 100644 > --- a/policy.sgml > +++ b/policy.sgml > @@ -7427,7 +7427,18 @@ f

Bug#477240: Please clarify status of XSI extensions for kill and trap

2010-07-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Geissert writes: >> diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml >> index bad28af..1658cbf 100644 >> --- a/policy.sgml >> +++ b/policy.sgml >> @@ -7427,7 +7427,19 @@ fname () { >> >>must be supported and must set the value of c to >>delta. >> - >> +

Bug#477240: Please clarify status of XSI extensions for kill and trap

2010-07-03 Thread Raphael Geissert
Hi Russ, On Saturday 03 July 2010 18:49:40 Russ Allbery wrote: > Here's a patch which implements that, plus an additional exception for > libtool scripts which trap SIGPIPE by number. Objections or seconds? > I'm copying Clint as posh maintainer since this will be relevant to which > features pos

Bug#477240: Please clarify status of XSI extensions for kill and trap

2010-07-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Geissert writes: > Based on the results from the last archive-wide checkbashisms check on i386, > the situation is as follows: > There are about *91* unique binary packages with at least one match for > the trap with signal numbers check. > And about *112* unique binary packages with a

Bug#477240: Please clarify status of XSI extensions for kill and trap

2008-04-21 Thread Raphael Geissert
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.7.3.0 Severity: minor Quoting a portion of the current section 10.4: > Scripts may assume that /bin/sh implements the SUSv3 Shell Command > Language[62] plus the following additional features not mandated by > SUSv3:[63] Based on the results from the last archive