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Re: removal of kill?
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Pádraig Brady |
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Re: removal of kill? |
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Tue, 15 Dec 2015 17:49:05 +0000 |
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On 13/12/15 20:29, Leslie S Satenstein wrote:
> man kill shows -l as providing signal names and -L as providing both names
> and numbers either as privileged or regular user (0, or 1000).
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> I kill -L output returns as expected results if it is root or sudo user.
> Otherwise it returns
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> bash: kill: L: invalid signal specification
Only bash >= 4.4 supports this.
Also I adjusted the comment in kill.c to reference
procps compat, rather than bash compat, as the
former was the first to have the -L option,
while bash, util-linux followed.
cheers,
Pádraig