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Re: LYNX-DEV [Fwd: BoS: A vulnerability in Lynx (all versions)]


From: Benjamin C. W. Sittler
Subject: Re: LYNX-DEV [Fwd: BoS: A vulnerability in Lynx (all versions)]
Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 13:48:53 -0600 (MDT)

On Wed, 7 May 1997, Larry W. Virden, x2487 wrote:

> >Other than that, it looks okay, except that using the numeric signal codes
> >is more portable than using the mnemonics.
> 
> Did you perhaps mean to say:
> >Other than that, it looks okay, except that using the mnemonis signal codes
> >is more portable than using the numerics?
> 
> Because I've seen reports on comp.lang.unix and elsewhere regarding the fact
> that signal _numbers_ change from OS to OS, and sometimes from release to 
> release
> within an OS, but that the mnemonics, at least as defined in the SVID or
> POSIX, won't change.

This is true, but older sh versions don't understand the mnemonics.


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