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X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 11:36:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: Robert  McGovern <robertm AT spellmanhv DOT co DOT uk>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, rob AT tarasis DOT net
Subject: Re: Seqfault doing kill -l
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On Thu, 27 May 2004, Robert  McGovern wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Couldn't find a mention of this in the Cygwin mailing list archives and
> thought I'd ask about it.
>
> I was trying to get the list of siginals that cygwins kill (/bin/kill)
> takes using the kill -l command (and --list). Unfortuantly it causes it
> to segfault as you can see from the following output, thought the other
> kill in /usr/bin/kill works okay. Is this a known issue?

Confirmed.  This just got fixed in CVS by Christopher Faylor, BTW:
<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2004-q2/msg00210.html>.

> robertm AT al ~
> $ /bin/kill --list
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
> robertm AT al ~
> $ /bin/kill --version
> kill (cygwin) 1.14
> Process Signaller
> Copyright 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Red Hat, Inc.
> Compiled on Mar 18 2004
>
> I have captured a stack trace
> [snip]

FYI, the stack trace is worthless, as it's on an optimized non-debug
version of cygwin1.dll.

> robertm AT al ~
> $ which kill
> /usr/bin/kill

You should have used "type kill", which would have shown you that "kill is
a shell builtin".
HTH,
	Igor
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