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Re: kill
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Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: kill |
Date: |
Sat, 18 Aug 2001 09:01:06 +0200 |
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Marcus Brinkmann <address@hidden> wrote:
> we don't have a kill binary in the Hurd, but we need one (for example to be
> used as "sudo kill" etc), the shell builtin is not good enough.
Have you considered the one in the procps package?
$ dpkg --search /bin/kill
procps: /bin/kill
What about this?
$ sudo bash -c 'kill ...'
> We would like this to be part of shellutils. My questions are, would you be
> willing to include a kill utility?
>
> Would you be willing to write one? If
> not, me or Neal can certainly provide you with a GNU clean implementation.
>
> A simple approach is to just have a small wrapper script for the shell
> builtin. Would you prefer this over a C implementation, or the other way
> round?
- kill, Marcus Brinkmann, 2001/08/16
- Re: kill,
Jim Meyering <=