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coreutils package

  1. Bug #75574
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 75574

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Micah Cowan (micahcowan) wrote :

To my dismay, SIGXFSZ is a POSIX-defined signal; and because the "cp" command is specified as having the "Default" behavior with regard to asynchronous events (signals), it will break POSIX to install a signal handler for this by default.

In my opinion, it would be well to diverge from POSIX in this respect, and provide the signal handler by default, except when POSIXLY_CORRECT has been specified.