Re: [PATCH] kill: fix signal number to name lookup on AIX

[Michael Felt]

On 7/27/2017 10:22 AM, Michael Felt wrote:
> I think both patches are working as expected. Had to find the 
> "patched" 8.27 tarball you sent previously to get rid of the missing 
> function.
>
> Test performed on AIX 6.1 (6100-09-08-1642), on NFS filesystem (trying 
> on local filesystem on AIX 5.3, but will probably fail (initially) 
> because of /bin/sh glob issues. Will retry using SHELL=/bin/ksh and 
> "bash-4"
On AIX 5.3 /bin/sh cannot run the tests...
make[4]: Entering directory '/tmp/coreutils-8.27.4-3c9d7'
make[4]: execvp: /bin/sh: Arg list too long

> On 7/23/2017 12:37 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > On 29/06/17 05:22, Michael Felt wrote:
> > > FAIL: tests/misc/kill
> > > ++ env kill -l HUP TERM
> > > ++ tail -n1
> > > + SIGTERM=15
> > > ++ env kill -l 15
> > > + test EXIT = TERM
> > > + fail=1
> > I think our hack of using the wait() status access macros for
> > manipulating the exit status from shells is failing for AIX.
> > The attached avoids the use of WTERMSIG() on AIX.
> > Perhaps we should do this for all platforms?
> >
> > cheers,
> > Pádraig