Removal was promised to happen at March 2014 and the time has to get rid of
this unexpected feature.
Reference: c5b057b3422504a671ee588fa66574ae876521f1
Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@xxxxxx>
---
Documentation/deprecated.txt | 5 -----
misc-utils/kill.1 | 5 -----
misc-utils/kill.c | 4 ----
3 files changed, 14 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/deprecated.txt b/Documentation/deprecated.txt
index 81a4122..39dc335 100644
--- a/Documentation/deprecated.txt
+++ b/Documentation/deprecated.txt
@@ -34,11 +34,6 @@ why: does not provide control on output data formatting. The recommended solut
--------------------------
-what: "pid" as binary name for "kill --pid"
-why: too ugly, too obscure
-
---------------------------
-
What: mkfs
Why: use filesystem specific mkfs.<type>.
diff --git a/misc-utils/kill.1 b/misc-utils/kill.1
index f50d850..a7d7a74 100644
--- a/misc-utils/kill.1
+++ b/misc-utils/kill.1
@@ -91,11 +91,6 @@ uid as the present process.
\fB\-p\fR, \fB\-\-pid\fR
Only print the process id (pid) of the named processes, do not send any
signals.
-.IP
-The \fB\-\-pid\fR option is automatically enabled when the \fBkill\fR command
-is invoked with the name of
-.BR pid .
-This functionality is deprecated, and will be removed in March 2016.
.TP
\fB\-\-verbose\fR
Print pid(s) that will be signaled with kill along with the signal.
diff --git a/misc-utils/kill.c b/misc-utils/kill.c
index 34b9487..e52a03d 100644
--- a/misc-utils/kill.c
+++ b/misc-utils/kill.c
@@ -472,10 +472,6 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
textdomain(PACKAGE);
atexit(close_stdout);
- ctl.do_pid = (!strcmp(program_invocation_short_name, "pid")); /* Yecch */
- if (ctl.do_pid) /* FIXME: remove in March 2016. */
- warnx(_("use of 'kill --pid' option as command name is deprecated"));
-
argv = parse_arguments(argc, argv, &ctl);
/* The rest of the arguments should be process ids and names. */
--
2.9.3
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