Re: SIGTRAP in kill emulation on MS Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Alain Schneble <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2016 22:42:05 +0200
> 
> sys_kill in w32proc.c maps some signals (SIGINT, SIGKILL, SIGQUIT,
> SIGHUP) to the appropriate W32 API calls.  Couldn't it handle SIGTRAP as
> well and map it to a call to DebugBreakProcess
> (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms679298(v=vs.85).aspx)?

It could, but what would be the use case for this functionality?  Who
or what would trigger that signal, and what would that trigger do on a
Posix system?