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Re: portable way to trap SIGCHLD?
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: portable way to trap SIGCHLD? |
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Sat, 29 Jan 2005 00:21:13 -0800 |
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Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:
> Are there any systems where there are no accessible versions of kill(1)
> which can convert either a single signal name to number, or vice versa?
That ability wasn't in 7th Edition Unix. It's fairly universal now,
but I dunno about some of the older systems like Ultrix. Also, many
older System V Unixes called it SIGCLD instead of SIGCHLD, so there
will be some variance in the name (as opposed to the number). And
some Unix clones and/or variants don't have the signal at all.