Re: CVS commit: basesrc/bin/kill

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Nov 25,  5:07pm, kleink%reziprozitaet.de@localhost (Klaus Klein) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: CVS commit: basesrc/bin/kill

It might not, but if we don't put it in, we'll be the only shell that
does not provide this kind of help :-)
[tested with csh, tcsh, zsh, bash, pdksh]

christos

| 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
-- End of excerpt from Klaus Klein