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tap/awk: improve comments about Korn shell signal handling issues
authorStefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:48:13 +0000 (20:48 +0200)
committerStefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:48:13 +0000 (20:48 +0200)
commit5014b1c294a4b8982ab3c7c78e2272fdcdff468d
treea53a4341d84594a8166b0cca226f962e0a73e308
parentc481ac95102bf739e7c95e0ec23a40b24bee7017
tap/awk: improve comments about Korn shell signal handling issues

* lib/tap-driver.sh: Link an Austin Group discussion about how
shells are allowed, and even encouraged, to set the special
variable `$?' to values greater than 256 to report termination
of a child by a signal.  Improve and extend comments about our
workarounds for unusual korn shell signals' propagation.

Thanks to Eric Blake for the pointers.
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