On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 8:07 AM, Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/11/15 16:02, Bernhard Voelker wrote: >> On 11/09/2015 04:27 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: >>> I see on most GNU/Linux distros that kill(1) is >>> provided by the shell or util-linux. >>> Should we just remove it from coreutils? >> >> What about non-Linux systems, i.e., where util-linux is not >> available? I personally don't have such a system, but I think >> GNU software should not forget about such platforms. > > Absolutely. Though in this case the shells cater > for kill(1), or the platform already provides it.
Note that POSIX requires an 'exec'able kill program. I.e., the shell-provided one is insufficient when you want to invoke it via a program like xargs.
