*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1637026 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1637026
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1637026
kill incorrectly parses negative PIDs
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The above commit was about 2 months ago, and going by the tags in git, 3.3.11
(the latest official release) is 11 months ago.
In my view this is a pretty serious bug, and potentially deserving of a
distro-level patch in the interim?
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Looks like it has been fixed upstream already:
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/commit/b42997b6c9c140c0ee1b93c4bbbc0fee38d21238
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Here are two alternative ways to demonstrate this command line parsing bug:
1. In a bash terminal say:
trap "I received an invalid TERM signal" SIGTERM
/bin/kill -s TERM -15
Note that bash ignores the TERM unless this trap is present, so the TRAP makes
it clear what is going on.
2. In a bash
Please have a look at skill.c kill_main(). It looks like in recent releases,
this has switched over to using getopt_long() to process the command-line
arguments. And it's treating '-1[anything]' as a kill(-1, ...) which kills
*everything* you're permitted to kill except init.
If I'm correct,
I just tried downgrading procps package from (3.3.10-4ubuntu2) to
(3.3.9-1ubuntu8) and this causes the command to do nothing as expected.
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I just came across this issue when Appium (
https://github.com/appium/appium ) kills my session upon start.
After checking out the logs from Appium it tries to clear some potential
processes :
ps -ef | grep chromedriver_64 | grep -v grep |grep -e '--
port=9515\(\s.*\)\?$' | awk '{ print $2 }' |
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: procps (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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