Re: CVS commit: basesrc/bin/kill

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

On Nov 25,  8:29pm, kleink%reziprozitaet.de@localhost (Klaus Klein) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: CVS commit: basesrc/bin/kill

| christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas) writes:
| 
| > 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]
| 
| csh isn't intended to be a POSIX-style shell, and I won't dive into
| the perils of arguing with _you_ how tcsh ought to work, thank
| you. ;-) ksh93 agrees with you; bash-2.05b does not.

heh. bash agrees with me. you just need an extra enter [hit return
one more time and the process will exit].

| The motiviation for this seems dubious to me: SIGTERM and SIGHUP may
| be (ab?)used by an application to deviate from their default actions,
| so "helping" it to exit immediately may not be right.

It is fine with me and I will revert it, I just thought it was TRT because
everyone else does it.

| Again, the specification of the shell environment provides nothing to
| support this behaviour, and I'd rather not see sh have a 'posix'
| option switch.

I am with you on that, so since we agree, I'll comment it out.

christos