Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:26:38 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Ed Schouten <ed@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: <alpine.BSF.1.10.0809301625500.75798@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <200809281644.m8SGiNZD041087@repoman.freebsd.org> References: <200809281644.m8SGiNZD041087@repoman.freebsd.org>
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On Sun, 28 Sep 2008, Ed Schouten wrote: > SVN rev 183438 on 2008-09-28 16:44:15Z by ed > > Don't automatically prepend the "tty" prefix to `pkill -t' arguments. > > 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 passed > on the command line. This meant that `pkill -t pts/0' was actually > converted to /dev/ttypts/0. Disable this broken behaviour for now. Once we've decided on the right long-term fix, it should be an MFC candidate so that 7.x userspaces work properly on 8.x kernels in the future. Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge
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