From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Sep 26 6:30: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4437C37B42C for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 06:30:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id GAA51804; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 06:30:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 06:30:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200009261330.GAA51804@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Matthew Seaman Subject: Re: bin/15496: killall(1) limited to 16 character process names by procfs(5) Reply-To: Matthew Seaman Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR bin/15496; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Matthew Seaman To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Cc: Subject: Re: bin/15496: killall(1) limited to 16 character process names by procfs(5) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 14:22:11 +0100 Since killall(1) has recently transmogrified into a C program, I guess this PR might be closable. However, the same bug still seems to be present: st-pancras:/tmp:# uname -a FreeBSD st-pancras.inpharmatica.co.uk 4.1.1-STABLE FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE #0: Tue Sep 26 12:32:33 BST 2000 root@st-pancras.inpharmatica.co.uk:/export/i386/obj/export/src/sys/ST-PANCRAS i386 st-pancras:/tmp:# file /usr/bin/killall /usr/bin/killall: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked, stripped st-pancras:/tmp:# ./123456789012345 & [1] 249 st-pancras:/tmp:# ./1234567890123456 & [2] 250 st-pancras:/tmp:# ./12345678901234567 & [3] 251 st-pancras:/tmp:# head /proc/{249,250,251}/status ==> /proc/249/status <== 123456789012345 249 227 249 227 5,0 ctty 969973928,166376 0,0 0,6293 nanslp 0 0 0,0,0,2,3,4,5,20,31,994,998 - ==> /proc/250/status <== 1234567890123456 250 227 250 227 5,0 ctty 969973930,750074 0,0 0,6484 nanslp 0 0 0,0,0,2,3,4,5,20,31,994,998 - ==> /proc/251/status <== 1234567890123456 251 227 251 227 5,0 ctty 969973934,657696 0,0 0,6582 nanslp 0 0 0,0,0,2,3,4,5,20,31,994,998 - st-pancras:/tmp:# killall 12345678901234567 No matching processes were found st-pancras:/tmp:# killall 1234567890123456 [3] - Terminated ./12345678901234567 [2] - Terminated ./1234567890123456 Cheers, Matthew -- Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate non iam adesse. Dr. Matthew Seaman, Inpharmatica Ltd, 60 Charlotte St, London, W1T 2NU Tel: +44 20 7631 4644 x229 Fax: +44 20 7631 4844 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message