what happened to kill -f?
Christopher Faylor
cgf@redhat.com
Fri Oct 5 12:08:00 GMT 2001
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 03:00:38PM -0400, Peter Buckley wrote:
>I tried asking nicely, but got no responses. All I really need is a
>pointer to which package to search the source for this error- I
>searched the archives, faq, and docs with no results.
>
>/home/pbuckley $ kill -f 363
>bash: kill: bad signal spec `f'
Hmm. I was kinda hoping that someone else would answer this. I guess
it isn't going to happen.
"kill" is a bash built-in. It doesn't know about the "-f" option.
kill.exe is a cygwin program. It does know about the "-f" option.
To use kill.exe, you'll have to type something like '/bin/kill -f 363'.
cgf
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