Neal H Walfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Have you considered the one in the procps package?
>>
>> $ dpkg --search /bin/kill
>> procps: /bin/kill
>
> procps is a Linux specific package. If we went this route, we would
> have to just rip out kill and it seems silly to make a new package just
> for a three line shell script. Thus, shellutils seemed like the best
> location.
>
>> What about this?
>>
>> $ sudo bash -c 'kill ...'
>
> Of course, however, this is a bit inconvenient.
Meaning you have to type more? :-)
Then how about this:
sudo-kill() { sudo bash -c "kill $@"; }
You're probably beginning to see that I'm reluctant
to add `kill' to the sh-utils. A shell script would not be
portable enough, because it'd depend on there being an available
shell with a sufficiently featureful kill builtin function.
Writing a _portable_ (not just to GNU systems) C version is possible,
but wouldn't be trivial. Then add documentation.
However, if you're motivated and offer to do all the work, you could
probably convince me...
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