Re: [RFC] The SIGINFO signal from BSD

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Sun Nov 23 2014 - 04:49:41 EST


On Mon 2014-11-10 14:22:00, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
> > wouldn't be accepted. (BTW, if you're going to do this, note that ^T
> > could be remapped to any control character via stty; so to do this we
> > would need to define an extra index in c_cc[] array in the struct
> > termios.)
>
> We have 19 entries in the array and no platforms that byte pack so that
> would actually be doable I think.
>
> I'm really dubious about its value in the Linux world. You could do far
> better teaching the GUI desktop to walk the process tree of clients and
> dump the window owners process subtrees in a nice pop up window.

I use ssh way too much, so yes, I'd like to see SIGINFO.

Forgetting to add -v to cp command line is too common.

I can help testing patches :-).

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