Re: removal of kill?

[Pádraig Brady]

On 09/11/15 15:53, Jim Meyering wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 7:27 AM, Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I see on most GNU/Linux distros that kill(1) is
>> provided by the shell or util-linux.
>> Should we just remove it from coreutils?
>>
>> We might move 'kill' to the disabled_by_default_progs
>> list in build-aux/gen-lists-of-programs.sh,
>> but I'm thinking we should do like we did with su
>> and just remove it?
>>
>> What prompted this was noticing that util-linux
>> and bash 4.4 have `kill -L` to produce a compact table,
>> and balking at the idea of keeping these options in sync.
> 
> I would be inclined to retain it one way or the other, since some people
> surely require it, either because they choose not to, or simply
> cannot, install an alternate package that provides it.

Maybe. It would be good to see example though.
I searched for usage of gkill for example, but only
found that that is used on cygwin as it provides kill
that handles windows pids