Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 18:25:49 GMT From: jh@FreeBSD.org To: me@salimane.com, jh@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/165811: kill(1) doesn't terminate a process group with the command "kill -- -117" (from man kill) Message-ID: <201203071825.q27IPnfE062452@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Synopsis: kill(1) doesn't terminate a process group with the command "kill -- -117" (from man kill) State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: jh State-Changed-When: Wed Mar 7 18:20:23 UTC 2012 State-Changed-Why: Salimane Adjao Moustapha wrote: > Terminate the process group with PGID 117: > > kill -- -117 > > > but running it gives error : > > >kill -- -117 > -: Unknown signal; kill -l lists signals. It looks like you used a shell built-in kill. If you still have the problem when using explicitly /bin/kill, let us know. > kill -- -117 -: Unknown signal; kill -l lists signals. > /bin/kill -- -117 kill: -117: No such process > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=165811
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