bin/165811: kill(1) doesn't terminate a process group with the command "kill -- -117" (from man kill)

[jh at FreeBSD.org]

Synopsis: kill(1) doesn't terminate a process group with the command "kill -- -117" (from man kill)

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: jh
State-Changed-When: Wed Mar 7 18:20:23 UTC 2012
State-Changed-Why: 
Salimane Adjao Moustapha wrote:
> Terminate the process group with PGID 117:
>
>            kill -- -117
>
>
> but running it gives error :
>
>  >kill -- -117
>  -: Unknown signal; kill -l lists signals.

It looks like you used a shell built-in kill. If you still have the
problem when using explicitly /bin/kill, let us know.

> kill -- -117
-: Unknown signal; kill -l lists signals.
> /bin/kill -- -117
kill: -117: No such process
>

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