Gentoo: new signal, SIGPEBKAC
Apr. 1st, 2005 12:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robbat2A question that many application developers have, is how to deal with entirely stupid user input.
As a remedy, I'd like to propose a new signal for unix.
We will use signal '0', as that is currently unused (see kill -l).
The signal name will be SIGPEBKAC.
If applications decide that a user is being an idiot, and not providing sensible input, they may emit a SIGPEBKAC, and terminate.
With the possibilities of this new signal, we can extend Gentoo to the absolute cutting edge of new software, while cutting back on the number of bug reports. I will be adding MySQL-5.0 and OpenLDAP-2.3 into ~arch, and filing a bug for arches to fast-track it into stable.
As a remedy, I'd like to propose a new signal for unix.
We will use signal '0', as that is currently unused (see kill -l).
The signal name will be SIGPEBKAC.
If applications decide that a user is being an idiot, and not providing sensible input, they may emit a SIGPEBKAC, and terminate.
With the possibilities of this new signal, we can extend Gentoo to the absolute cutting edge of new software, while cutting back on the number of bug reports. I will be adding MySQL-5.0 and OpenLDAP-2.3 into ~arch, and filing a bug for arches to fast-track it into stable.