Bug 891143 - man dd has an error regarding kill
Summary: man dd has an error regarding kill
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: coreutils
Version: 17
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
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Assignee: Ondrej Vasik
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-01-02 01:33 UTC by rmknox
Modified: 2013-01-04 04:10 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-01-02 10:18:50 UTC
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Description rmknox 2013-01-02 01:33:05 UTC 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/23.0.1271.97 Safari/537.11
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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
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