Most shells (including bash, zsh) have a built-in for kill so it's done
internally. Some shells don't so it executes /bin/kill instead which has
this issue.
One comment noted this was fixed at some point in 2013 in version 3.3.4
but it apparently broke again at some point and is broken at least
This should be reassigned to procps, /bin/kill is not in coreutils.
In debian this has been fixed procps-ng 3.3.4.
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/bin/kill no longer
Indeed, done. Bug marked Triaged.
@Michael Selig: one of the reasons it took that long is that there are
very few volunteers to work on the bugs.
** Package changed: coreutils (Ubuntu) = procps (Ubuntu)
** Changed in: procps (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete = Triaged
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/bin/kill --version
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kill from procps-ng 3.3.3
This is from Ubuntu 13.04. When I reported the bug originally it was on
12.10 (which I no longer use). However the bug is still there on 13.04,
unfortunately.
PS: Why has it taken over 8 months for this bug to be acknowledged? I
thought it must
Thank you for this bug and helping making Ubuntu better.
Please run '/bin/kill --version', and report back the version. Also,
next time please use 'ubuntu-bug' to open a bug. For example, in this
case, 'ubuntu-bug coreutils'.
** Changed in: coreutils (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = Medium
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: coreutils (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Confirmed
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