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From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@Informatik.BA-Stuttgart.DE>
Subject: Re: bin/5322: enhancement for kill(1) to search for a file ``/var/run/*pid''
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The following reply was made to PR bin/5322; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@Informatik.BA-Stuttgart.DE>
To: imdave@Mcs.Net
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: bin/5322: enhancement for kill(1) to search for a file ``/var/run/*pid''
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 21:54:15 +0100 (MET)

 > 	It's really convenient to be able to name a process to be sent
 > 	a signal by name rather than having to do a ``ps'' and search for
 > 	the correct pid.  Since many of the system daemons write a file
 
 Agreed, but I think this is done already pretty well by the killall(1)
 command, so I don't think, we need this enhancement to kill(1).
 
 Anyway, thanks for the suggestion.
 
 Wolfgang