From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 24 16:32:22 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C155E16A4CE for ; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 16:32:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp2.server.rpi.edu (smtp2.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A2BD43D49 for ; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 16:32:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp2.server.rpi.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i2P0VnEw017897; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 19:31:49 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 19:31:48 -0500 To: Julian Elischer From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) cc: arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Adding `pgrep' and `pkill' to /usr/bin X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 00:32:22 -0000 At 3:51 PM -0800 3/24/04, Julian Elischer wrote: >On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > > The `pkill' command searches the process table on the running > > system and signals all processes that match the criteria given > > on the command line. > >so pkill is like killall but more flexible? > >how about you make killall a special case of pkill so we don't >have the duplication.. Well, at first I'll just add it and see what it takes to get it working, but then I'll see about collapsing killall into a special-case of pkill. Sounds like a good idea. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu