Re: kill

["Pádraig Brady" <P@draigBrady.com>]

Karel Zak wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 01:42:13AM -0500, Albert Cahalan wrote:
>> Karel Zak writes:
>>
>>> I've originally thought about util-linux upstream fork,
>>> but as usually an fork is bad step. So.. I'd like to start
>>> some discussion before this step.
>> ...
>>> after few weeks I'm pleased to announce a new "util-linux-ng"
>>> project. This project is a fork of the original util-linux (2.13-pre7).
>> Well, how about giving me a chunk of it? I'd like /bin/kill please.

We definitely need less version of kill:

ubuntu: $ dpkg -S `which kill`
procps: /bin/kill

fedora: $ rpm -qf `which kill`
util-linux-2.12p-9.3

fedora: $ type kill
kill is a shell builtin

$ tar tzf coreutils-6.2.tar.gz | grep kill
coreutils-6.2/src/kill.c
coreutils-6.2/man/kill.1
coreutils-6.2/man/kill.x


>  We can think about it. I'm not sure with this kind of changes in the
>  next 2.13 release. That release should be more about bug fixes and
>  code stabilisation. 

agreed.

>  
>  I'd like to do some consolidation in 2.14. I also need explore why
>  RHEL/FC uses the kill command from util-linux rather that from
>  procps. And Suse and Debian?

On a similar note, there are utils in util-linux[-ng] that are
not specific to linux (like look, cal etc.)
There has been the proposal for a new miscutils project
on the coreutils list: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-11/msg00086.html
for which I am the proposed maintainer of.
Possibly some of these non specific linux utils could be moved there?

cheers,
Pádraig.