Charles M. Hannum wrote
> > 
> > kdbg-1.2, a kde wrapper to dbg, uses literals as shown above.
> > Is there any reason why NetBSD never implemented this? 
> 
> Because you didn't write the code yet?  B-)

Well, thats why I've asked for the specifications... implementations
withouth substantiated reasoning will ALWAYS hit a brickwall with
other developers...

> > It wouldn't be a hard thing to do. Is there a specification that
> > describes the requirements and the expected behavior for this sh and
> > in particular for the builtin trap function?
> 
> Dunno.  I'd check POSIX; they were certainly keen on having kill(1)
> accept names, so I wouldn't be surprised if they had something to say
> about sh(1).

Yep, kill was the other application that was on my mind. Will checkout
POSIX tonight... thanks for your info..

cheerio Berndt
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