[PATCH] ash.c: repairing kill for susv3

Mats Erik Andersson mats.andersson64 at comhem.se
Sat Apr 21 11:24:59 UTC 2007


tor 2007-04-19 klockan 23:42 +0200 skrev Denis Vlasenko:
> I propose (a) nuking builtin kill from ALL shells we have.
> (b) make them call kill applet (grep for 'bb_cat' for an example
> how to reuse one applet's internals from other applets),
> and (c) fix any SuSv3 incompatibilities in kill applet.
> 
> This way we won't be forced to fix kill five times.
> 
> kill from coreutils-6.8 is probably SuSv3 compliant or very
> close to it. On my system it gives:

Well, a quick case of code hunting tells me that, of all
shells presently in Busybox, it is only ash that ships
with a builtin 'kill' command, whence a correction is a
one time effort, not a five times repetition. Lest I misunderstood
that remark about the fiver.

Regards,  Mats E A



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