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J. M. Gates's _Anthology of American Folk Music: Social Music (2)_: "Oh Death Where Is Thy Sting" In-Reply-To: <83h7468hjm.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 27 Jun 2022 14:36:13 +0300") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2a01:4f9:2b:f0f::2; envelope-from=larsi@gnus.org; helo=quimby.gnus.org X-Spam_score_int: -43 X-Spam_score: -4.4 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:291678 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > I admit that I don't understand the purpose and the intended uses of > this new primitive. Is it there only for signal-process or more > generally for read-signal-name or even more generally for providing > the exhaustive list of names of all the signals known to the OS? It's for read-signal-name. > If it's only for signal-process, then is it really useful to produce a > completion table of 63 or 255 signal names, quite a few of which > cannot be usefully delivered to another process? Perhaps it would be > better to have a much shorter (system-dependent) list of signals that > can be delivered to processes on each system? IOW, if this is > supposed to be a convenience feature, then why not provide the user > with a convenient short list of signals that he/she would reasonably > consider delivering, and leave the rest to numbers? I don't know how to determine which ones are reasonable to consider delivering, so punting to gnulib seems like a more long term solution. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no