VSTATUS, with or without SIGINFO

The Unix signal interface is complex and hard to work with; some developers have argued that its design is "unfixable". So when Walt Drummond proposed increasing the number of signals that Linux systems could manage, eyebrows could be observed at increased altitude across the Internet. The proposed increase seems unlikely to happen, but the underlying goal — to support a decades-old feature from other operating systems — may yet become a reality.

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