X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Dave Korn" To: Subject: RE: Problem with kill Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:59:01 +0100 Message-ID: <046501c6de36$1d661f30$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 22 September 2006 11:31, Eric Lilja wrote: > $ kill -v > bash: kill: v: invalid signal specification > > mikael@ditt-9624b96a3d ~/jobb/example_programs/simple_iterator > $ kill --version > bash: kill: -version: invalid signal specification > > mikael@ditt-9624b96a3d ~/jobb/example_programs/simple_iterator > $ whereis kill > kill: /bin/kill.exe /usr/bin/kill.exe /usr/share/man/man1/kill.1.gz > > What am I doing wrong? (cygcheck.out attached) Heh. You ran into a well-known gotcha. dk@rainbow /artimi/software/firmware> type kill kill is a shell builtin dk@rainbow /artimi/software/firmware> type /bin/kill /bin/kill is /bin/kill dk@rainbow /artimi/software/firmware> /bin/kill -v kill (cygwin) 1.14 Process Signaller Copyright 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Red Hat, Inc. Compiled on Jan 20 2006 dk@rainbow /artimi/software/firmware> Same thing goes for 'echo' very often! :) cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/