Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-1?Q?bin=2F6553:_kill_doesn=B4t_know_-s_option?=
To: Geoff Wing <gcw@pobox.com>
From: Andrew Brown <twofsonet@graffiti.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 12/10/1998 20:23:05
>:i meant the shells that ship with netbsd.  although...how many other
>:ways of doing it are there?  i can't imagine there are that many
>:differing ways of implementing kill.
>
>             kill -s SIGNAM      kill -SIGNAM
>             --------------      ------------
>/bin/kill    yes                 yes
>sh           (no builtin)        (no builtin)
>csh          yes                 yes
>tcsh         no                  yes
>bash         yes                 yes
>zsh          yes                 yes
>rc (plan9)   ?                   ?
>
>Out of the more commonly used shells, tcsh is the only one the doesn't
>support ``kill -s SIGNAM''.  That's for the tcsh author/s to change - if
>they desire to support it.

heh.  you forgot the ignominious kill -SIGNUM feature.  :)

		kill -SIGNUM
		------------
/bin/kill	yes
sh		(no builtin)		(why not?)
csh		yes
tcsh		yes
bash		yes
zsh		(presumably)
rc (plan9)	?

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