Re: [PATCH] t0005: skip signal death exit code test on Windows

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 9, 2013, 20:31 UTC
Message-ID: <7vk3m3owk2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130609001845.GC29964@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I'm a little negative on handling just SIGTERM. That would make the test
> pass, but does it really address the overall issue? To me, the
> usefulness is having exit values with consistent meanings.

Yes. Unless the goal is to give Windows port pratically the same signal semantics as ports on other platforms, I do not think special casing SIGTERM (unless it is a very common signal on Windows and others are unlikely to be useful) buys us much.

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