[1825] in Athena Bugs
Re: csh and process groups
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Sun Feb 26 22:24:35 1989
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 89 22:24:08 EST
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bjaspan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, jfc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Yo! RTFSC! Failing that, RTFM!
As shipped from berkeley, kill -ANY_SIGNAL <pid> sends a kill signal to
that process, as properly documented in the man page. Why do people
think that a kill is supposed to do a killpg? Probably because kill %1
sends a kill to the process group for job 1.
This may seem not terribly intuitive, but it Does The Right Thing 99% of
the time. It only does the wrong thing when people start having false
expectations of what killin a process means.
- Ted
