[SM-Discuss] util-linux, coreutils, shadow ...
Ladislav Hagara
ladislav.hagara at unob.cz
Sat Jan 26 21:40:34 EST 2008
>>>> Any particular reason in choosing the /bin/kill in coreutils over
>>>> the one in procps? I'm curious.
>>>>
>>> My assumption is that coreutils is always installed. Procps, on the
>>> other hand, is not.
>>>
>> Unlikely as both are pulled in by basesystem.
> Would be good ti figure out which of these installs the better kill
> command/manpage and go with that...
My personal reason was that the last procps was released on 2006-06-25
and I usually prefer newer versions.
When I was trying to find out more info about kill I found Ubuntu bug
[1], sb. prefers kill from coreutils because it supports "--" option.
On [2] you can see which packages are use for providing /bin/kill in
some linux distros.
Seems SUSE, openSUSE, Mandriva use coreutils. Debian, Ubuntu use procps, ...
It is interesting (or just a bug) that Mandrive 2007 Spring use
/bin/kill from util-linux and moreover /usr/bin/kill from coreutils [3].
[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/coreutils/+bug/141168
[2]
https://www.linux-foundation.org/dbadmin/browse/cmd_single.php?cmd=list-by-name&Cname=kill
[3]
https://www.linux-foundation.org/dbadmin/browse/rawcmd.php?cmd=list-bydistr&Did=9
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Ladislav Hagara
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