Path: csiph.com!optima2.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Chet Ramey Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: Add -L to kill builtin to be more compatible to procps version of kill Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 14:29:21 -0400 Lines: 18 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: chet.ramey@case.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1443725887 12166 208.118.235.17 (1 Oct 2015 18:58:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu Cc: chet.ramey@case.edu To: Christian Ehrhardt , bug-bash@gnu.org Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 In-Reply-To: X-Junkmail-Status: score=10/60, host=mpv5.cwru.edu X-Junkmail-Whitelist: YES (by domain whitelist at mpv2.tis.cwru.edu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 129.22.105.37 X-BeenThere: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com gnu.bash.bug:11569 On 9/30/15 10:07 AM, Christian Ehrhardt wrote: > Hi, > I read and worked on a fix reported to ubuntu regarding this issue. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/1488939 > > Eventually it came down to bash builtin vs procps verison of kill having > different options. > I proposed a solution making it more similar to the procps verision in a > way I considered not too invasive. It shouldn't be too bad to make -L equivalent to -l. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU chet@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/