bug(kill): when using -l with $'\xFF' no errors reported
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Hi, uutils mainteners
i want let you known, that is another error silence issue, i used
relunsec@relunsec:~/software/coreutils/target/debug$ ./kill -l $'\xFFa\xFF'
EXIT
HUP
INT
QUIT
ILL
TRAP
ABRT
BUS
FPE
KILL
USR1
SEGV
USR2
PIPE
ALRM
TERM
STKFLT
CHLD
CONT
STOP
TSTP
TTIN
TTOU
URG
XCPU
XFSZ
VTALRM
PROF
WINCH
POLL
PWR
SYS
RTMIN
RTMAX
relunsec@relunsec:~/software/coreutils/target/debug$
as i can see just gets back signals full list, no errors while gnu kill errors out correctly
relunsec@relunsec:~/software/coreutils/target/debug$ kill -l $'\xFFa\xFF'
bash: kill: �a�: invalid signal specification
relunsec@relunsec:~/software/coreutils/target/debug$
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Start with the kill command entry point and reproduce ./kill -l $'\xFFa\xFF', then compare its output with GNU kill using the command shown. Done means an invalid signal specification reports an error instead of silently printing the full signal list.
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