Autzoo.1581 net.bugs.v7 utzoo!henry Mon Apr 19 18:58:48 1982 kill -1 -1 The V7 kill program will not take -1 as a processid. The kill system call likes it just fine (it sends the signal to all processes except 0 and 1) but kill(1) thinks it is syntactically invalid. The fix for this is to change the line: if (**argv<'0' || **ARGV>'9') to something like: if (!isdigit(**argv) && **argv != '-') (NB if you use isdigit rather than the explicit 0 and 9, you'll need to #include .) ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.