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Date:      Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:17:09 +0100
From:      Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl>
Cc:        Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [patch] add pwait utility
Message-ID:  <4AF5E3D5.3050009@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20091107201954.GA84099@stack.nl>
References:  <20091106222446.GB60707@stack.nl>	<20091107112832.24b0c0d4@ernst.jennejohn.org>	<20091107130136.GI2331@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20091107201954.GA84099@stack.nl>

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Jilles Tjoelker escribió:
>> And it seems to make sense to add this functionality to pkill/pgrep
>> binary, creating another hardlink to it.
>>     
>
> Hmm, pwait's syntax is incompatible: it takes pids (pkill says: use
> kill) and the -v option does something totally different.
>   
That's not an issue. You can declare

extern char *__progname;

and use it to parse the command line arguments in a different way. Of 
course, it only makes sense if pkill/pgrep has some inner functionality 
you can make use of to avoid duplication.

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Gabor Kovesdan
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