>>>>> "chetan" == chetan dutta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

    chetan> in a shell script with vgetty, kill command is used with
    chetan> -PIPE option, the man page has no such option, on command
    chetan> line also this command ( kill -PIPE pid ) is not giving
    chetan> any errors.  any clues, what this option is for??

This command delivers the SIGPIPE signal to the pid on command line.

man kill for details.

kill -l for a list of available signals. man 7 signal for the default
actions associated with them.

vgetty source code for what it does when it receives SIGPIPE.

Binand

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