Re: pkill

[Alfred M\. Szmidt]

   Most people use the builtin kill command of the shell, so you'll
   have to change Bash as well as coreutils.

I wish that bash would remove all those builtins, or only use them if
a such a builtin doesn't exist on the system.

   If the program's name is actually a number, the syntax would be
   ambiguous.  Presumably you could have a --match-name option for
   these rare, ambiguous cases.

One could easily get around that by doing `kill SIG -- NAME' or
something.

   From a coreutils point of view, there'd be a lot of code to add,
   since you need the functionality of "ps", which is not in coreutils
   now.

Yeah, I looked at ps, and adding pgrep functionality there is easier.
But then my mind started thinking that it would be nice to support
proper regexpes, and I just hate C regexp support...