Tim Waugh wrote:
> With bash-3.0.14, this command:
>
> sh -c 'kill -SIGTERM $$'
>
> gives this error:
>
> sh: line 0: kill: SIGTERM: invalid signal specification
>
> The man page for bash says that 'sigspec is either a case-insensitive
> signal name such as SIGKILL (with or without the SIG prefix)'.
>
> Should the documentation be corrected to mention that, if invoked as
> sh, the shell will not recognise the SIG prefix for the kill builtin?
Since the behavior is as it stands because of Posix requirements, it
appears that I should copy the posix mode section of the texinfo manual
to the man page. After all, it's not long enough now.
Chet
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