small problem with kill --queue

[Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>]

Hello Sami,

./kill --queue 11 12
kill: sending signal to 12 failed: Operation not permitted

/kill --queue data 12
kill: unknown signal data; valid signals:
 1 HUP      2 INT      3 QUIT     4 ILL      5 TRAP     [...]

But "data" is not a signal, it is meant to be a number, an integer,
a value passed to the signalled process.

In misc-utils.c it does this:

        arg = *argv;
        if ((ctl->numsig = arg_to_signum(arg, 0)) < 0)
                err_nosig(arg);

But it should not run arg_to_signum() on the argument, it
should simply parse it as an integer, and when that fails,
it should not call err_nosig() but say something like "not
a number".  Right?

Benno

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