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Ismael Juma updated KAFKA-3384:
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Fix Version/s: (was: 0.10.1.0)
> bin scripts may not be portable/POSIX compliant
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> Key: KAFKA-3384
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-3384
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 0.9.0.1
> Reporter: Ewen Cheslack-Postava
> Assignee: Ewen Cheslack-Postava
> Fix For: 0.10.0.0
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> We may be using some important tools in a non-POSIX compliant and
> non-portable way. In particular, we've discovered that we can sometimes
> trigger this error:
> /usr/bin/kafka-server-stop: line 22: kill: SIGTERM: invalid signal
> specification
> which looks like it is caused by invoking a command like {{kill -SIGTERM
> <pid>}}. (This is a lightly modified version of {{kafka-server-stop.sh}}, but
> nothing of relevance has been affected.)
> Googling seems to suggest that passing the signal in that way is not
> compliant -- it's a shell extensions. We're using {{/bin/sh}}, but that may
> be aliased to other more liberal shells on some platforms. To be honest, I'm
> not sure exactly the requirements for triggering this since running the
> command directly on the same host via an interactive shell still works, but
> we are definitely limiting portability using the current approach.
> There are a couple of possible solutions:
> 1. Standardize on bash. This lets us make more permissive wrt shell features
> that we use. We're already using /bin/bash in the majority of scripts anyway.
> Might help us avoid a bunch of assumptions people make when bash is aliased
> to sh: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh
> 2. Try to clean up scripts as we discover incompatibilities. The immediate
> fix for this issue seems to be to use {{kill -s TERM}} instead of {{kill
> -SIGTERM}}.
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