Most people use the builtin kill command of the shell, so you'll have to change Bash as well as coreutils.
I wish that bash would remove all those builtins, or only use them if a such a builtin doesn't exist on the system. If the program's name is actually a number, the syntax would be ambiguous. Presumably you could have a --match-name option for these rare, ambiguous cases. One could easily get around that by doing `kill SIG -- NAME' or something. From a coreutils point of view, there'd be a lot of code to add, since you need the functionality of "ps", which is not in coreutils now. Yeah, I looked at ps, and adding pgrep functionality there is easier. But then my mind started thinking that it would be nice to support proper regexpes, and I just hate C regexp support... _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
