Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 22:16:57 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: arch@freebsd.org Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Subject: Re: Questions on `pgrep' and `pkill' Message-ID: <p06020483bc894fd9f474@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <p06020481bc893b6e2b4d@[128.113.24.47]> References: <p0602046abc879c5fe2f9@[128.113.24.47]> <p06020481bc893b6e2b4d@[128.113.24.47]>
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At 9:05 PM -0500 3/25/04, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>
>This wasn't the behavior I would expect. Are there some other
>flag(s) I should be checking for whatever these commands are
>using P_SYSTEM for? (I think we'll all be better off if I
>don't try to become a kernel developer to answer this...)
Of course, that won't stop me from guessing...
The man page says:
Note that a running pgrep or pkill process will never
consider itself nor system processes (kernel threads)
as a potential match.
If I switch the P_SYSTEM check to P_KTHREAD, I get results that
seem to be more reasonable to me...
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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