Re: [RFC] The SIGINFO signal from BSD

From: Martin Tournoij
Date: Mon Nov 10 2014 - 09:34:15 EST


On Mon, Nov 10, 2014, at 15:22, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
> > wouldn't be accepted. (BTW, if you're going to do this, note that ^T
> > could be remapped to any control character via stty; so to do this we
> > would need to define an extra index in c_cc[] array in the struct
> > termios.)
>
> We have 19 entries in the array and no platforms that byte pack so that
> would actually be doable I think.
>
> I'm really dubious about its value in the Linux world. You could do far
> better teaching the GUI desktop to walk the process tree of clients and
> dump the window owners process subtrees in a nice pop up window.

I don't use a GUI desktop, and almost none of my programmer friends do.
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