Imported Upstream version 1.3upstream/1.3

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/src/pkg/os/exec_plan9.go b/src/pkg/os/exec_plan9.go
index 2bd5b6888..676be36ac 100644
--- a/src/pkg/os/exec_plan9.go
+++ b/src/pkg/os/exec_plan9.go
@@ -52,10 +52,6 @@ func (p *Process) signal(sig Signal) error {
 	if p.done() {
 		return errors.New("os: process already finished")
 	}
-	if sig == Kill {
-		// Special-case the kill signal since it doesn't use /proc/$pid/note.
-		return p.Kill()
-	}
 	if e := p.writeProcFile("note", sig.String()); e != nil {
 		return NewSyscallError("signal", e)
 	}
@@ -63,10 +59,7 @@ func (p *Process) signal(sig Signal) error {
 }
 
 func (p *Process) kill() error {
-	if e := p.writeProcFile("ctl", "kill"); e != nil {
-		return NewSyscallError("kill", e)
-	}
-	return nil
+	return p.signal(Kill)
 }
 
 func (p *Process) wait() (ps *ProcessState, err error) {