Shell kill would report a problem if you tried to kill a process
while procps kill was silent. This meant it looked like kill worked
when it actually failed.
References:
commit 07642b8ea6https://bugs.debian.org/733172
The first part of fixing skill/snice to use the library instead
of directly readdir()ing /proc which is what it does now.
Remove the kill code from the skill/snice code and put common
elements into lib/signals.c Not 100% sure that is the right
destination instead of a new lib file, but ok for now.
kill shares some parsing logic with skill/snice but mainly
around signal specifications. The "do it" code is very different.
Signed-off-by: Craig Small <csmall@enc.com.au>
