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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/killall killall.pl 
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> On 1998-09-01 12:49:22 +0200, Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav  wrote:
> > Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
> > >   Log:
> > >   PR: bin/5596
> > >   
> > >   Change the diagnostic if there were no matching processes owned by
> > >   you.
> > 
> > Hmm, IMHO the old diagnostic was good enough.
> 
> It was a minor change. For example
> 
> old:
> $ /usr/bin/killall getty
> No matching processes ``getty''
> 
> new:
> $ perl ./killall.pl getty
> No matching processes ``getty'' belonging to you

It's incorrect if you're root, and still grammatically incorrect.  
Functionality should also move to 'kill', where the pattern should be a 
legitimate alternative to a PID.

# kill -TERM init
Cannot send signal to 'init': permission denied.

# kill -TERM foo
Cannot send signal to 'foo': no such process.

(You might omit this one:)

# kill -v -HUP httpd
Could not send signal to some processes matching 'httpd': permission denied.

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