looking that the last bit of the man file i see this
SEE ALSO
bash(1), tcsh(1), kill(2), sigvec(2), signal(7)
and i think aah!
is not kill a built-in to bash and tcsh ?
so
/bin/kill is different to kill
run kill -l
and /bin/kill -l
and see the difference.
course the commandname option still doesn't work.
On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 09:38, Mike MacCana wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 08:42, Voytek Eymont wrote:
>
> > man kill
> > ..
> > kill [ -s signal | -p ] [ -a ] [ -- ] pid ..
> > ..
> > OPTIONS
> > pid... Specify the list of processes that kill should sig-
> > nal. Each pid can be one of five things:
> > ..
> > commandname
> > All processes invoked using that name will
> > be signaled.
>
> OK, we know you can use other commands to kill processes by name, but
> can anyone answer Voktek's question, or explain why the documentation
> for kill seems to imply that the kill command can kill by name if it
> can't?
>
> I've always wanted to know the answer to that one...
>
> Mike
>
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