On 21/04/2008, Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 15:24 -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: > > No, it is because according to the specs it should be kill -s 9; > > though both bash and dash (and other common POSIX shell scripts > > interpreters) do allow kill -9. > > > /bin/kill also supports kill -9. > > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/utilities/kill.html says > that kill -9 is an XSI extension. > > > Functionality marked XSI is also an extension to the ISO C standard. > > Application writers may confidently make use of an extension on all > > systems supporting the X/Open System Interfaces Extension. > > > What is the status of XSI extensions in Debian policy?
As you can guess: XSI extensions are _not_ required by policy. You may also want to refer to #436438, and #477240 > -- > > Thomas > > > > Cheers, -- Atomo64 - Raphael Please avoid sending me Word, PowerPoint or Excel attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
