Re: removal of kill?

[Jim Meyering]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 8:07 AM, Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.

Note that POSIX requires an 'exec'able kill program.
I.e., the shell-provided one is insufficient when you want to
invoke it via a program like xargs.