From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Jan 31 06:40:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA19178 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 06:40:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA19159; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 06:40:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 06:40:00 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199801311440.GAA19159@hub.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs Cc: From: Wolfram Schneider Subject: Re: bin/5596: killall's bogus diagnostics Reply-To: Wolfram Schneider Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" The following reply was made to PR bin/5596; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Wolfram Schneider To: mi@aldan.algebra.com Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/5596: killall's bogus diagnostics Date: 31 Jan 1998 15:13:33 +0100 Mikhail Teterin writes: > >Description: > > If a process exists, but can not be killed (belongs to > another user, for example), killall(1) will still report > "No matching processes" This is intentionally and not a bug. killall(1) try to kill only processes which can be killed. If I call `killall ftp', killall should only kill my ftp clients and not complains about the not killable ftp processes which belongs to other users. -- Wolfram Schneider http://www.freebsd.org/~wosch/