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28.1; Cannot send signals by name to inferior process by calling signal-process interactively

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: 56239 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Daniel Martín <mardani29 <at> yahoo.es>
Subject: Re: bug#56239: 28.1; Cannot send signals by name to inferior
 process by calling signal-process interactively
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 12:41:29 +0200

Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de> writes:

> Unfortunately, it's not such simple. signal-process can also deliver a
> signal to a process running on a remote host. The signal names on that
> host might differ from the signal names on the local host, collected by
> Fsignal_names.
>
> How do we want to handle this? I don't see a simple solution, because
> the file name handler machinery is not in use here.

I think users will just have to use numbers in those cases (which is
still possible).  I.e., the symbol names are a convenience where it
works, but if not, then users can't use those.

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