Re: preview: What's cooking in git.git (Jun 2016, #10; Tue, 28)

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 29, 2016, 02:39 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqziq467m5.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160629014342.GA28661@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> Johannes pointed out that matching "3" for Windows is overly broad (it
> only happens due to raise(), not regular signal death).
>
> What do we want to do there?
>
> I _think_ matching "3" just makes us slightly less careful, and will not
> cause false positives (it may cause false negatives in very specific
> cases, though). So one option is to proceed as-is.
>
> Another is to just put the posix/ksh schemes into the helper function,
> and let Windows people sort it out later if they want to.

Probably the latter.  Thanks for stopping me ;-)