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Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 02:28:57 +0200
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From: Jean-Pierre Praz <jpraz AT dplanet DOT ch>
Subject: /bin/kill version 1.14 
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hello

after an update of a few cygwin components, i have now the problem that 
some scripts that use 'kill -9' or 'kill -INT' don't work any more. they 
produce the following output:


Usage: kill [-f] [-signal] [-s signal] pid1 [pid2 ...]
        kill -l [signal]
Send signals to processes

  -f, --force     force, using win32 interface if necessary
  -l, --list      print a list of signal names
  -s, --signal    send signal (use kill --list for a list)
  -h, --help      output usage information and exit
  -v, --version   output version information and exit



the same output appears when i execute a '/bin/kill' command. but when i 
execute simply 'kill' (without the leading /bin/) the result is different 
and looks like this:


kill: usage: kill [-s sigspec | -n signum | -sigspec] [pid | job]... or kill -l
[sigspec]


if i change the appropriate line in a script to 'kill -s 9' instead of 
'kill -9' it works. but i can't change all the scripts. what could be the 
reason for this behaviour after the few updates i did? why does 'kill' not 
produces the same output as '/bin/kill'? i wondered if there were two 
versions of kill in different paths, but i only found one of them....

thank for ideas and help
jpp


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