From: Harald van Dijk <harald@gigawatt.nl>
To: Martijn Dekker <martijn@inlv.org>, dash@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] 'trap' is not quite POSIX compliant
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 17:08:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56BF54E5.7020006@gigawatt.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56BF4F91.7080105@inlv.org>
On 13/02/2016 16:45, Martijn Dekker wrote:
> The 'trap' command in dash is not compliant with POSIX. According to the
> spec, both '-' and any unsigned decimal integer should be accepted as an
> argument meaning 'unset this trap'; dash only accepts '-'.
Indeed. This was reported early December at
<http://www.spinics.net/lists/dash/msg01109.html> along with a patch.
The patch got rejected in its initial form, which would treat any
unsigned decimal integer as a signal number. Its later update treats
unsigned decimal integers as signal numbers only up to NSIG (which is an
OS-dependent value). bash uses a dynamic limit based on NSIG too, except
it adds some specific special numbers for bash-specific traps. I
wouldn't be surprised if it's dynamic in the other shells you tested as
well, and that the shell-specific traps are the reason for the slight
variations in limits you found.
Cheers,
Harald van Dijk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-13 16:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-13 15:45 [BUG] 'trap' is not quite POSIX compliant Martijn Dekker
2016-02-13 16:08 ` Harald van Dijk [this message]
2016-02-15 18:46 ` Chet Ramey
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