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From: Scott Schwartz <schwartz@groucho.cs.psu.edu>
To: hugh@redvax.uucp ()
Cc: rc@archone.tamu.edu
Subject: signal handling
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1991 17:03:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <91Oct3.180342edt.2515@groucho.cs.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "D. Hugh Redelmeier"'s message of Wed, 2 Oct 1991 10:38:38 -0400 <9110021438.AA06931@redvax>


| I want a shell to be absolutely trustable.  

I strongly agree.

| The only safe things that a signal handler can do are
| (according to ANSI):

So what?  A shell is an OS specific tool.  If you want to quote
standards, POSIX is the one to quote.  BSD, at least, has reasonable
methods for dealing with signals.  It would be nice to take advantage
of them.



      reply	other threads:[~1991-10-03 22:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1991-10-02 14:38 "D. Hugh Redelmeier"
1991-10-03 22:03 ` Scott Schwartz [this message]

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