Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:04:54 +0200 From: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/pkill pkill.1 pkill.c Message-ID: <20080929160454.GE16837@hoeg.nl> In-Reply-To: <200809291051.47759.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <200809281644.m8SGiNZD041087@repoman.freebsd.org> <200809291051.47759.jhb@freebsd.org>
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--ILuaRSyQpoVaJ1HG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Sunday 28 September 2008 12:44:15 pm Ed Schouten wrote: > > ed 2008-09-28 16:44:15 UTC > >=20 > > FreeBSD src repository > >=20 > > Modified files: > > bin/pkill pkill.1 pkill.c=20 > > Log: > > SVN rev 183438 on 2008-09-28 16:44:15Z by ed > > =20 > > Don't automatically prepend the "tty" prefix to `pkill -t' arguments. > > =20 > > Because we now enforce UNIX98-style PTY's, we now use a lot of TTY's > > that don't have the traditional /dev/ttyXX naming scheme. pkill(1)'s = -t > > flag automatically prepended the word "tty" to each TTY that was pass= ed > > on the command line. This meant that `pkill -t pts/0' was actually > > converted to /dev/ttypts/0. Disable this broken behaviour for now. > > =20 > > Reported by: erwin >=20 > Why not fix it to do what other utilities like ps, etc. do and just try i= t=20 > both ways? You want to be able to use the 'tty' column from ps output as= an=20 > argument this, and serial port logins are still going to show up as 'd0'= =20 > (sio0) or 'u0' (uart0). Yeah, that's true. My fix was the best I could do in 5 minutes, but trying both device names would seem like a fair approach. I'll see if I can get to something this evening. --=20 Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> WWW: http://80386.nl/ --ILuaRSyQpoVaJ1HG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkjg/KYACgkQ52SDGA2eCwVyagCcCEQCudl/UYIQcyw0GtybJMZb iq8Anj2WaIl7inyB6QY6UIH+pxzwo+nt =md6q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ILuaRSyQpoVaJ1HG--
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