[Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#862978: Bug#862978: zsh: `kill -L` doesn't work

[Daniel Shahaf]

On Fri, May 19, 2017, at 14:36, Robbie Harwood wrote:
> As per kill(1), -L should generate a pretty list of signals and values.  Like
> this:

The -L option exists in the system's kill command (/bin/kill) but not in zsh's 
builtin kill command (which you get when you type a bare 'kill').  That is fine
because the -L command is a Linux extension to the standard, as documented in
both kill(1) and kill(1p) (the latter from the manpages-posix package).

So, if you want the -L option, call the system's kill command, not the zsh
builtin one.  For example:

% =kill -L
% /bin/kill -L

Bottom line: everything works as expected/documented.

Cheers,

Daniel

P.S. The reason for having a builtin kill command is to make things like
`kill %2` possible (= killing a job by job number).