Subject: Re: CVS commit: basesrc/bin/kill
To: None <christos@netbsd.org>
From: Klaus Klein <kleink@reziprozitaet.de>
List: source-changes
Date: 11/25/2002 17:07:23
Christos Zoulas <christos@netbsd.org> writes:

> Module Name:	basesrc
> Committed By:	christos
> Date:		Mon Nov 25 14:23:08 UTC 2002
> 
> Modified Files:
> 	basesrc/bin/kill: kill.c
> 
> Log Message:
> sent cont to jobs so that they can exit without an fg when killed.

As far as I can tell, POSIX does not permit this kind of 'help'; in
particular, it specifies that "the kill utility shall perform actions
equivalent to the kill() function", making no further provisions for
stopped process groups.


- Klaus