Missing kill signals in /usr/new/csh
David C. White
davew at gvgpsa.GVG.TEK.COM
Sat Sep 9 05:24:39 AEST 1989
Ran across this one yesterday. Took a little while to figure out
that the problem was had something to do with /usr/new/csh. Atlanta
suggested that I SPR it even though it is "unsupported" software.
Wondering if anyone else has seen this and might know the cause.
It looks like the 'kill' command in /usr/new/csh does not include
all the signals.
Using /usr/new/csh does not allow use of the WINCH, USR1, or USR2
signals with the 'kill' command unless the path is explicitly specified
as '/bin/kill'. Doing a 'kill -l' under /usr/new/csh also does not
list these three signals. Doing a 'kill -l' under '/bin/csh' or
explicitly specifying the path ('/bin/kill') under '/usr/new/csh' does
cause all the signals to be listed. The following script, run under
'/usr/new/csh' shows the problem:
Script started on Fri Sep 8 11:42:34 1989
gvgpsa:davew[41] kill -USR1 8552
USR1: Unknown signal; kill -l lists signals.
gvgpsa:davew[42] kill -l
HUP INT QUIT ILL TRAP IOT EMT FPE KILL BUS SEGV SYS PIPE ALRM TERM URG
STOP TSTP CONT CHLD TTIN TTOU IO XCPU XFSZ VTALRM PROF
gvgpsa:davew[43] /bin/kill -l
HUP INT QUIT ILL TRAP IOT EMT FPE KILL BUS SEGV SYS PIPE ALRM TERM URG
STOP TSTP CONT CHLD TTIN TTOU IO XCPU XFSZ VTALRM PROF WINCH USR1 USR2
gvgpsa:davew[44] csh
gvgpsa:davew[41] kill -l
HUP INT QUIT ILL TRAP IOT EMT FPE KILL BUS SEGV SYS PIPE ALRM TERM URG
STOP TSTP CONT CHLD TTIN TTOU IO XCPU XFSZ VTALRM PROF WINCH USR1 USR2
gvgpsa:davew[42] ^D
gvgpsa:davew[45] ^D
script done on Fri Sep 8 11:43:35 1989
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