Bug 891143

Summary:	man dd has an error regarding kill
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	rmknox <knox>
Component:	coreutils	Assignee:	Ondrej Vasik <ovasik>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	17	CC:	admiller, kdudka, kzak, ovasik, pbrady, p, twaugh
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Description rmknox 2013-01-02 01:33:05 UTC

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man dd says that to see status of dd when it is running in background, execute this comand: kill -USR1 dd. In fact f17 needs you to use pkill instead of kill

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.kill -USR1 dd returns an error
pkill does not
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Comment 1 Ondrej Vasik 2013-01-02 06:57:06 UTC

Could you please be more specific which error? This may give us better idea what part of OS is faulty here (I don't have F17 on my machine atm. and F17 coreutils dd compiled on RHEL-6 with RHEL-6 kill works just fine, so I'll need to install F17 VM).

Comment 2 Pádraig Brady 2013-01-02 10:18:50 UTC

Ever since it was first documented, the pid is used rather than the name:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=7fd35644
I also confirmed that the latest Fedora 17 source doesn't change this.

Comment 3 rmknox 2013-01-04 04:10:21 UTC

I was confused and in error - please forgive the false alarm