Re: Signal names

[Michael Beattie]

On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 05:13:07PM -0700, Tim Auckland wrote:
> signal.h does not give you the strings for the signal names, just the
> #defines for the numbers.  You have to put in a bit more work to get the
> string-to-number mapping, but it's still do-able.
> 
> Something like:
...
> although there's probably a neater way.
> 
> Cfengine also uses an enum somewhere in the signal name mapping code,
> which would have to be dealt with similarly.


How about just using the #define's to give the right signal, when the
name is used?

signal = hup

wherever it parses that, use SIGHUP. Then you can map symbolic names
cfengine style, to SIGxxx #define values.

I would have thought that was the sensible method.

If I sound incoherent, thats because I usually am.

Mike.
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