Re: removal of kill?

[Pádraig Brady]

On 09/11/15 16:02, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 11/09/2015 04:27 PM, Pádraig Brady 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?
> 
> What about non-Linux systems, i.e., where util-linux is not
> available?  I personally don't have such a system, but I think
> GNU software should not forget about such platforms.

Absolutely. Though in this case the shells cater
for kill(1), or the platform already provides it.