On 09/11/15 15:53, Jim Meyering wrote: > On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 7:27 AM, Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> wrote: >> I see on most GNU/Linux distros that kill(1) is >> provided by the shell or util-linux. >> Should we just remove it from coreutils? >> >> We might move 'kill' to the disabled_by_default_progs >> list in build-aux/gen-lists-of-programs.sh, >> but I'm thinking we should do like we did with su >> and just remove it? >> >> What prompted this was noticing that util-linux >> and bash 4.4 have `kill -L` to produce a compact table, >> and balking at the idea of keeping these options in sync. > > I would be inclined to retain it one way or the other, since some people > surely require it, either because they choose not to, or simply > cannot, install an alternate package that provides it.
Maybe. It would be good to see example though. I searched for usage of gkill for example, but only found that that is used on cygwin as it provides kill that handles windows pids
