Re: CVS commit: basesrc/bin/kill

[Klaus Klein <kleink%reziprozitaet.de@localhost>]

Christos Zoulas <christos%netbsd.org@localhost> writes:

> Module Name:  basesrc
> Committed By: christos
> Date:         Mon Nov 25 14:23:08 UTC 2002
> 
> Modified Files:
>       basesrc/bin/kill: kill.c
> 
> Log Message:
> sent cont to jobs so that they can exit without an fg when killed.

As far as I can tell, POSIX does not permit this kind of 'help'; in
particular, it specifies that "the kill utility shall perform actions
equivalent to the kill() function", making no further provisions for
stopped process groups.


- Klaus