Bug 98

Summary:	sudo does not execute kill command with -ABRT signal
Product:	Sudo	Reporter:	Oleg Dashevskiy <odashevskiy>
Component:	Sudo	Assignee:	Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	normal
Version:	1.6.6
Hardware:	IBM
OS:	AIX

Description Oleg Dashevskiy 2003-01-20 17:04:10 MST

When "kill -ABRT <pid>" command is executed under sudo the kill command does 
not recognize ABRT signal (signal -6 did work). 
spd01:/home/crc >sudo kill -ABRT 101230
Password:
bad signal number
usage: kill [ -signal | -s signal] pid ...
usage: kill -l [exit_status]

sudo did let me use the SEGV signal name, however:

spd01:/home/crc >sudo kill -SEGV 101230

The OS is AIX running on IBM RS-6000.
The version of sudo is 1.6.6.

Comment 1 Todd C. Miller 2003-03-13 18:36:03 MST

This is not a bug in sudo.  The problem is that your shell's builtin kill command recognizes -ABRT but /usr/bin/kill (or whichever version of kill is in your PATH) does not.