On Thursday 26 February 2009 06:33:17 Timothy Redaelli wrote:
> On Thursday 26 February 2009 10:32:52 you wrote:
> > i'm totally not following.  we were talking about POSIX shell syntax, but
> > now you're talking about utilities as well ?
>
> I'm talking about checkbashism.pl checks and btw type is a builtin and kill
> can also be a builtin

it doesnt matter if they're builtins, they still need to follow POSIX

> kill -HUP
> `cat /var/run/mDNSResponderPosix.pid` >&/dev/null possible bashism in
> /etc/init.d/mDNSResponderPosix line 35 (kill -[0-9] or -[A-Z]): kill -HUP

POSIX states that `kill [-signal_name]` is valid syntax.  if the shell doesnt 
support it, then it isnt POSIX complaint and therefore it sucks and is not 
worth consideration.
-mike