From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 23:49:58 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Require /bin/sh support XSI extensions for kill and trap
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Require /bin/sh support XSI extensions for kill and trap

Due to the widespread use of these extensions by scripts already in
the archive, require that /bin/sh support the XSI extensions for kill
and trap which permit kill -<signal> and use of numeric signals for
well-known signals.  Also permit trapping of SIGPIPE by signal number,
since this is done by well-known portable shell scripts like libtool.
---

diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index bad28af..1658cbf 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -7427,7 +7427,19 @@ fname () {
 </example>
 	      must be supported and must set the value of <tt>c</tt> to
 	      <tt>delta</tt>.
-            </item>
+	    </item>
+	    <item>The XSI extension to <prgn>kill</prgn> allowing <tt>kill
+	      -<var>signal</var></tt>, where <var>signal</var> is either
+	      the name of a signal or one of the numeric signals listed in
+	      the XSI extension (0, 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 14, and 15), must be
+	      supported.
+	    </item>
+	    <item>The XSI extension to <prgn>trap</prgn> allowing numeric
+	      symbols must be supported.  However, only the signal numbers
+	      listed in the extension, which are the same as
+	      for <prgn>kill</prgn> above, plus SIGPIPE (13) must be
+	      supported.
+	    </item>
 	  </list>
 	  If a shell script requires non-SUSv3 features from the shell
 	  interpreter other than those listed above, the appropriate shell