Re: rc and signals

[arnold@cc.gatech.edu (Arnold Robbins)]

> >Then, at startup, sort the table, eliminate duplicates, and voila, the
> >signal can be used an index again.
> 
> No it can't; suppose I have a machine that leaves some signal numbers unused?

It's a Simple Matter Of Programming to fill in the blank spots with
an entry that says "invalid signal" or "signal 17 (noname)".  I don't *think*
there are too many systems where the signal numbers are non-contiguous.

> >  DGK is one smart guy
> 
> I remain mildly convinced that this is not true.

Let me rephrase this then.  He's a pretty good programmer.  I also think he's
too quick to add features, but that's a different issue from "is ksh well
written code or not".  In my experience, ksh comes up and runs > 95% of the
time on almost any kind of Unix system out there. Ksh is generally the first
thing I bring up on a new system that doesn't have it (long habit, sorry :-).
Probably soon that will no longer be true for me, it'll be es (+ or - readline).

Arnold