GNU bug report logs - #9473
"kill -l" doesn't conform to POSIX when POSIXLY_CORRECT is set

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: shea <at> shealevy.com

Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 11:19:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: shea <at> shealevy.com
To: 9473 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9473: "kill -l" doesn't conform to POSIX when POSIXLY_CORRECT is set
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 01:25:38 -0700

From http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/kill.html:

  When the -l option is specified, the symbolic name of each signal shall
be written in the following
  format:

  "%s%c", <signal_name>, <separator>

  where the <signal_name> is in uppercase, without the SIG prefix, and the
<separator> shall be
  either a <newline> or a <space>. For the last signal written,
<separator> shall be a <newline>.

"kill -l" currently prints a table with each signal preceded by its number
and with the SIG prefixes, even with POSIXLY_CORRECT.
This bug report was last modified 13 years and 306 days ago.

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