linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] The SIGINFO signal from BSD

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Date:	Mon, 10 Nov 2014 15:34:09 +0100
From:	Martin Tournoij <martin@...242.net>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] The SIGINFO signal from BSD

On Mon, Nov 10, 2014, at 15:22, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
> > wouldn't be accepted.  (BTW, if you're going to do this, note that ^T
> > could be remapped to any control character via stty; so to do this we
> > would need to define an extra index in c_cc[] array in the struct
> > termios.)
> 
> We have 19 entries in the array and no platforms that byte pack so that
> would actually be doable I think.
> 
> I'm really dubious about its value in the Linux world. You could do far
> better teaching the GUI desktop to walk the process tree of clients and
> dump the window owners process subtrees in a nice pop up window.

I don't use a GUI desktop, and almost none of my programmer friends do.
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