Re: Question about kill(1)

2005-07-10 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Brian May may or may not have written... > Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Try ctrl/atl/shift + print/scroll/pause combinations on the console. Or >> alt+sysrq+h if thats enabled in your kernel. You get a process listing >> with one of the first and the second can

Re: Question about kill(1)

2005-07-10 Thread Brian May
> "Goswin" == Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Goswin> Try ctrl/atl/shift + print/scroll/pause combinations on Goswin> the console. Or alt+sysrq+h if thats enabled in your Goswin> kernel. You get a process listing with one of the first Goswin> and the second can

Re: Question about kill(1)

2005-07-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> "Adeodato" == Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Adeodato> I also have heard (but I'm not sure how often does this > Adeodato> happen, if at all) that it is usefult to have it as a > Adeodato> built-in when your system is in a sta

Re: Question about kill(1)

2005-07-09 Thread Brian May
> "Adeodato" == Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Adeodato> I also have heard (but I'm not sure how often does this Adeodato> happen, if at all) that it is usefult to have it as a Adeodato> built-in when your system is in a state when it can't Adeodato> create more proc

Re: Question about kill(1)

2005-07-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Bob Proulx [Thu, 07 Jul 2005 21:24:07 -0600]: > > > * why the different implementations? > > > It is there for BSD job control functionality. That way you can say > > 'kill %1' and kill the background jobs by job control number. The > > standalone version does not know a

Re: Question about kill(1)

2005-07-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 09:24:07PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > I was reading the kill man page today looking for some information for a > > script I am writing. The man page mentioned that some shells have a > > kill built-in command. On further investigation, I notic

Re: Question about kill(1)

2005-07-08 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Bob Proulx [Thu, 07 Jul 2005 21:24:07 -0600]: > > * why the different implementations? > It is there for BSD job control functionality. That way you can say > 'kill %1' and kill the background jobs by job control number. The > standalone version does not know about the shell's list of jobs.

Re: Question about kill(1)

2005-07-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > I was reading the kill man page today looking for some information for a > script I am writing. The man page mentioned that some shells have a > kill built-in command. On further investigation, I noticed that bash > has this as a built-in. > > My questions are: > > *

Question about kill(1)

2005-07-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
I was reading the kill man page today looking for some information for a script I am writing. The man page mentioned that some shells have a kill built-in command. On further investigation, I noticed that bash has this as a built-in. My questions are: * should I explicitly call /bin/kill? * is