Subject: Re: Killing processes by name (svr4 lameness)
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
List: current-users
Date: 04/12/1996 10:09:24
>>> svr4islame ~# cat /bin/kill
>>> /bin/sh -c "kill $*"
> I suppose we should file a bug with sun suggesting this instead:
> #!/bin/sh
> kill "$@"
In general, shouldn't that be
case $# in
0) kill ;;
*) kill "$@" ;;
esac
instead? Or have we (er, has Sun) finally fixed that, so that "$@"
goes away entirely instead of turning into "" when $# is zero? (In the
case of kill, the difference may not matter, of course. :-)
der Mouse
mouse@collatz.mcrcim.mcgill.edu