Subject: Re: Killing processes by name
To: Arne H. Juul <arnej@pvv.unit.no>
From: Chris G Demetriou <Chris_G_Demetriou@UX2.SP.CS.CMU.EDU>
List: current-users
Date: 04/11/1996 18:22:42
> > oh, and /bin/kill on solaris:
> >
> > svr4islame ~# cat /bin/kill
> > /bin/sh -c "kill $*"
>
> Yeuch. Can you spot the 2.5 errors in this one?
>
> [ ... ]
>
> #!/bin/sh
> kill "$@"
>
> would have been a lot better...
Undoubtedly, it's problems like this that cause 'true' and 'false',
when implemented as shell scripts, to get up to the 8th or 9th
revision... 8-)
cgd