Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 10:31:03 GMT From: Salimane Adjao Moustapha <me@salimane.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: gnu/165811: kill doesn't terminate a process group with the command "kill -- -117" (from man kill) Message-ID: <201203071031.q27AV38e008509@red.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201203071040.q27AeASH025578@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 165811
>Category: gnu
>Synopsis: kill doesn't terminate a process group with the command "kill -- -117" (from man kill)
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed Mar 07 10:40:09 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Salimane Adjao Moustapha
>Release: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE
>Organization:
7k7k.com
>Environment:
FreeBSD Fb-bj162 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Jul 19 02:36:49 UTC 2010 root@mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
>Description:
man kill says :
Terminate the process group with PGID 117:
kill -- -117
but running it gives error :
>How-To-Repeat:
create a process which have some children processes attached to it
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
>kill -- -117
-: Unknown signal; kill -l lists signals.
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