kill: deprecat invocation as 'pid' command name

Enabling options by renaming command is both unexpected and undocumented.
This magic is now deprecated and with remark of removal of this
functionality in future.

Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>

diff --git a/misc-utils/kill.1 b/misc-utils/kill.1
index 50f5cd206190d19c43ecabc0159b67e726868938..610f8fb72cbc40260da455c44c867f512010ff2b 100644 (file)
--- a/misc-utils/kill.1
+++ b/misc-utils/kill.1
@@ -88,6 +88,11 @@ Specify that
 .B kill
 should only print the process id (pid) of the named processes, and not send any
 signals.
+.IP
+The \-\-pid option functionality is enabled when the command
+copied or linked to name
+.BR pid .
+This functionality is deprecated, and will not be removed in March 2016.
 .TP
 \fB\-q\fR, \fB\-\-queue\fR \fIsigval\fR
 Use

diff --git a/misc-utils/kill.c b/misc-utils/kill.c
index 2fecda39e07043fcb69656baab4b6b493f49843e..c9c1bda1a2e3545815daf2c4bc73de7efe4918aa 100644 (file)
--- a/misc-utils/kill.c
+++ b/misc-utils/kill.c
@@ -170,6 +170,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 
        numsig = SIGTERM;
        do_pid = (!strcmp(program_invocation_short_name, "pid"));       /* Yecch */
+       if (do_pid)     /* FIXME: remove in March 2016.  */
+               warnx(_("use of 'kill --pid' option as command name is deprecated"));
        do_kill = 0;
        check_all = 0;
        /* Loop through the arguments.  Actually, -a is the only option