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coreutils package

Problem with kill man page

Bug #112515 reported by Evan Klitzke
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coreutils (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: coreutils

According to the man page shipped with kill, you should be able to use the -L option to print a table displaying all the available kill signals. In fact, if you kill -L, you get the following output:

evan@thinkpad ~/src/coreutils-5.97/coreutils-5.97/man $ kill -L
bash: kill: L: invalid signal specification

I downloaded the upstream coreutils release (version 6.9) and this option isn't documented at all in that kill man page, so I assume that this is a deprecated option, although I'm not positive.

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Evan Klitzke (eklitzke2) wrote :

I just checked kill.c in the source, and the -L option is not implemented at all, as I had suspected. This patch should remove the section of the man page documenting the presence of the -L option.

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Evan Klitzke (eklitzke2) wrote :

I got some help from the kind folks on #ubuntu-motu, and now the patch has been created with DBS and should be in the correct format.

Micah Cowan (micahcowan)
Changed in coreutils:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Ian: could you take a look at this please?

Changed in coreutils:
assignee: nobody → ijackson
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Ian Jackson (ijackson) wrote : Re: [Bug 112515] Problem with kill man page

Evan Klitzke writes ("[Bug 112515] Problem with kill man page"):
> I downloaded the upstream coreutils release (version 6.9) and this
> option isn't documented at all in that kill man page, so I assume that
> this is a deprecated option, although I'm not positive.

I haven't double-checked this, and I don't know why this changes is
being made upstream, but is there any reason why we shouldn't just
wait for the new upstream version to filter through to Ubuntu in the
normal course of events ? This doesn't seem a bug which is
particularly serious or urgent.

Ian.

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Bumping back to 'Incomplete'.

Changed in coreutils:
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Maybe you could forward it to upstream and/or Debian?

Ian Jackson (ijackson)
Changed in coreutils:
assignee: ijackson → nobody
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for coreutils (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

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