Giuseppe Scrivano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > do you have suggestions on this patch? It replaces any `signal' with > `sigaction'. > > Regards, > Giuseppe Scrivano > > Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Good idea. >> I've wanted to get rid of "signal" uses for ages. >> Are you interested in doing it?
Giuseppe, Perhaps you misunderstood? Eric proposed that idea and I addressed the reply above to him. He then replied that he would indeed like to implement it. Since you have spent time working on it, in spite of that, we are now in a bind. - you don't have a copyright assignment on file for coreutils, and those take at least 2-3 weeks to process. So even if we were to use your work, we'd have to wait. - it is considered poor form to jump in and write/submit a patch like that, when someone else is obviously planning to do the same thing. I suggest that Eric go ahead and do what he offered to, and post that. Then, perhaps it'd be interesting to compare the two patches, but I expect to review and use his. If you'd like to contribute, please coordinate, especially if it's a task that's being actively discussed. If you'd like another idea, here's a task I'd like to see completed, but for which no one has volunteered: [excerpt from http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/14417/focus=14546 ] [dd already has your "b =512, ..." notation, but 8 other programs with the same strings do not] I've applied this, but omitted the above part, because it adds "=" marks to just one of the several files that would need it in order to keep those duplicated messages in sync. However, I would welcome a patch that unifies and (if possible) then factors out some of the duplication displayed by this command: grep -E 'MB? =?10..\*10' src/*.c Ideally, each message string would appear in just one place, and all clients would use some symbol from e.g., system.h. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils