Subject: Re: Killing processes by name (svr4 lameness)
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Robert Evans <r.evans@ic.ac.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 04/12/1996 11:17:05
On Thu, 11 Apr 1996, John Kohl wrote:
> However, that script seems excessively inefficient to me. It gets
> passed to /bin/sh to interpret, which then runs as a subprocess
> /bin/sh -c "kill $*"
> I suppose we should file a bug with sun suggesting this instead:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> kill "$@"
This is starting to stray from NetBSD fodder, but under Solaris 2.5 the
script is actually thus:
#!/bin/ksh
#
#ident "@(#)alias.sh 1.1 95/02/06 SMI"
#
# Copyright (c) 1995 by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
#
cmd=`basename $0`
$cmd "$@"
(Which has 17 hard links to the names of other builtins.)
No need for the bug report. :-)
Cheers,
Robert
PS: Apologies for posting copyrighted material, hopefully Sun won't get
too mad at this minor infraction!