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Author pitrou
Recipients eric.araujo, neologix, pitrou, poq, r.david.murray, telmich
Date 2012-03-26.13:43:38
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Message-id <1332769419.59.0.175284924112.issue14228@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> Why an environment variable instead of a command line switch (as
> suggested by Ian Jackson)? Shouldn't a script be able to decide for
> itself how it handles signals?

Because the available space for command line switches is rather limited, and this isn't an important option.

This issue applies only to POSIX systems AFAIK, and it's easy to force an env var when running an executable ("MYENVVAR=foo python ...").
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2012-03-26 13:43:39pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, eric.araujo, r.david.murray, neologix, poq, telmich
2012-03-26 13:43:39pitrousetmessageid: <1332769419.59.0.175284924112.issue14228@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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