For whatever it's worth: $ uname -a Linux debian 3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.2.68-1+deb7u1 i686 GNU/Linux $ which kill /bin/kill $ kill -L bash: kill: L: invalid signal specification $ /bin/kill -L 1 HUP 2 INT 3 QUIT 4 ILL 5 TRAP 6 ABRT 7 BUS 8 FPE 9 KILL 10 USR1 11 SEGV 12 USR2 13 PIPE 14 ALRM 15 TERM 16 STKFLT 17 CHLD 18 CONT 19 STOP 20 TSTP 21 TTIN 22 TTOU 23 URG 24 XCPU 25 XFSZ 26 VTALRM 27 PROF 28 WINCH 29 POLL 30 PWR 31 SYS
/ Tomas On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 03:27:41PM +0000, 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? > > We might move 'kill' to the disabled_by_default_progs > list in build-aux/gen-lists-of-programs.sh, > but I'm thinking we should do like we did with su > and just remove it? > > What prompted this was noticing that util-linux > and bash 4.4 have `kill -L` to produce a compact table, > and balking at the idea of keeping these options in sync. > > cheers, > Pádraig. >
