Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 09:24:30 +0000 (UTC) From: Jason Spiro <jasonspiro4@gmail.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RFC] [patch] pkill verbose option Message-ID: <loom.20100204T102100-858@post.gmane.org> References: <a0777e081002030700l53d9cae2v74a181315ed55277@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1002031246160.37629@pragry.qngnvk.ybpny>
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jhell <jhell <at> DataIX.net> writes: [snip] > > Now pkill -v sleep on my system actually causes my Xserver to exit with a > unexpected signal 15. Yes. "pkill -v sleep" kills all your own processes except for sleep. As root, it kills all processes running on your machine except for sleep. -V is not a good choice of letter for this option: it's too easy to write -v instead by accident. -l (dash-ell), as jhell has suggested elsewhere in this thread, would be ideal, since it's lowercase and easy to type. If you don't like -l, you could choose to make it -D (for "Debug") instead.
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