Kill should accept signal names, not just numbers

[mgedmin]

These three should be equivalent

zdaemon kill 12
zdaemon kill USR2
zdaemon kill SIGUSR2

[freddrake]

zc.signalhandler (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.signalhandler/) has code you can rip off. Not that it's hard to write, but... why bother re-inventing?

[mgedmin]

zc.signalhandler is not on GitHub

😢

[mgedmin]

Now it is :)

[mgedmin]

Eh, name2signal from zc.signalhandler kind of does the opposite of what I need: converts signal numbers or names to names.

I can do getattr(signal, name2signal(arg)), I suppose, to convert it back into a number.

[freddrake]

Gosh, you closed this before I could respond to your comments.

Since you had to copy name2signal, you could have modified it to return the signal number instead of the normalized name. That would have avoided the awkward extra step.

Fortunately, that's still possible with another commit. :-)

[mgedmin]

Instead I decided to grab the opportunity to change the output to print the name of the signal being sent, instead of the number.

(Hm, there's already another number-to-name conversion function in zdrun.py. Perhaps something could be refactored there. I won't object ;-)