[Bug 1643084] Re: [REGRESSION] kill segfaults w/ single, negative PID

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This bug was fixed in the package procps - 2:3.3.10-4ubuntu2.3

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procps (2:3.3.10-4ubuntu2.3) xenial; urgency=medium

  * kill: Fix segfault when called with single negative pid,
    a regression introduced in 2:3.3.10-4ubuntu2.1 (LP: #1643084).

 -- dann frazier <dannf at ubuntu.com>  Fri, 18 Nov 2016 16:08:57 -0700

** Changed in: procps (Ubuntu Xenial)
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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Title:
  [REGRESSION] kill segfaults w/ single, negative PID

Status in procps package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in procps source package in Xenial:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  The kill binary will segfault when called w/ a single, negative PID. This breaks a use case where you maybe sending the default signal (SIGTERM) to all processes (-1) or all processes in a process group (-<PGID). This is regression introduced via an SRU to fix LP: #1637026.

  [Test Case]
  $ /bin/kill -9
  Segmentation fault (core dumped)

  [Regression Risk]
  This fix will now make our optparsing almost identical to current yakkety, for which I see no obvious regressions filed.

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