[Pkg-mwavem-devel] Bug#476761: Bug#476761: Bug#476761: mwavem: bashism in /bin/sh script

[Raphael Geissert]

On 21/04/2008, Thomas Hood <jdthood at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 15:24 -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote:
>  > No, it is because according to the specs it should be kill -s 9;
>  > though both bash and dash (and other common POSIX shell scripts
>  > interpreters) do allow kill -9.
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>  /bin/kill also supports kill -9.
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>  http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/utilities/kill.html says
>  that kill -9 is an XSI extension.
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>  > Functionality marked XSI is also an extension to the ISO C standard.
>  > Application writers may confidently make use of an extension on all
>  > systems supporting the X/Open System Interfaces Extension.
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>
>  What is the status of XSI extensions in Debian policy?

As you can guess: XSI extensions are _not_ required by policy.

You may also want to refer to #436438, and #477240

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> Thomas
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