Linked applet 'kill -l' missbehaves

Wed Apr 11 13:26:45 UTC 2007

On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 03:18:10PM +0200, Mats Erik Andersson wrote:
> Hello there,
> 
> I have discovered a strange behaviour which keeps
> returning in spite of several recompilations:
> 
> $ /bin/busybox kill -l
>  1) HUP   2) INT  .....
>  9) KILL  ...
> 17) CHLD  ...
> $ kill -l
> 7
> 16
> 23
> (every integer up to 63, one on each line of output)
> 63
> 
> 
> I cannot find any sensible explanation! 
> What is happening?

One is a shell internal function, the other isn't:
$ type kill
kill is a shell builtin

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lfr
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