Re: removal of kill?

[Tomas Nordin]

For whatever it's worth:

$ uname -a
Linux debian 3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.2.68-1+deb7u1 i686 GNU/Linux
$ which kill
/bin/kill
$ kill -L
bash: kill: L: invalid signal specification
$ /bin/kill -L
 1 HUP      2 INT      3 QUIT     4 ILL      5 TRAP     6 ABRT     7 BUS
 8 FPE      9 KILL    10 USR1    11 SEGV    12 USR2    13 PIPE    14 ALRM
15 TERM    16 STKFLT  17 CHLD    18 CONT    19 STOP    20 TSTP    21 TTIN
22 TTOU    23 URG     24 XCPU    25 XFSZ    26 VTALRM  27 PROF    28 WINCH
29 POLL    30 PWR     31 SYS

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Tomas

On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 03:27:41PM +0000, 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?
> 
> 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.
> 
> cheers,
> Pádraig.
>