Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 15:41:43 +0300 From: Andrey Chernov <ache@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG, src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/pkill pkill.c Message-ID: <20051116124143.GA2104@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <20051116115900.GA7992@garage.freebsd.pl> References: <200511161103.jAGB30d4062758@repoman.freebsd.org> <20051116112419.GA1363@nagual.pp.ru> <20051116115900.GA7992@garage.freebsd.pl>
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--EVF5PPMfhYS0aIcm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 12:59:00PM +0100, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > Let's say you call 'pkill sleep'. First it creates list of the matching > processes and when the list is done, it starts killing processes from > the list. When there is a race, so that process was inserted into the > list, but disappeared before killing, pkill(1) will quit with an error. > Which is bogus: there were 8 sleep processes, the 5th one disappeared, > so first 4 was killed, last 3 are still alive and pkill(1) returned an > error. Well, my initial statement will be modified slightly. 1) For SIGKILL, pkill should ignore disappeared precesses, as NetBSD does. 2) For any other signal, it should issue _warning_ and not error & stop. --=20 http://ache.pp.ru/ --EVF5PPMfhYS0aIcm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iQCVAwUBQ3spB+JgpPLZnQjrAQIzFQP/SWcehayxWztGkoJDnooNu4mPcVsVN3oV Q5lZzTFPTpeBULsUfTOZRKs+z5AReyXr4jh7qiBmVRCuMS4zyOSB1Q83FFbNSIRl gXRg4w/RelfWgSUFYU3Sx4Cg+u2Tnx3552qf+gsU9ks1gny5IeTDz+eWfBJYNKK8 O+tlHtClWcc= =BJhA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --EVF5PPMfhYS0aIcm--
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