Re: removal of kill?

[Pádraig Brady]

On 09/11/15 16:58, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 09/11/15 16:48, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> OK I'll assume for now that platforms
> might not have a separate kill program,
> and move it to disabled_by_default_progs.

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