From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 3 14: 0:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail45.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail45.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.254.60.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12A2E37B403 for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 14:00:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from math.missouri.edu ([24.12.197.197]) by femail45.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010903210048.OIOD25401.femail45.sdc1.sfba.home.com@math.missouri.edu> for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 14:00:48 -0700 Message-ID: <3B93EF80.37F0670A@math.missouri.edu> Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 16:00:48 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: killall longprocname Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If I create and run a program called abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz and then try to kill it using killall, the only command that seems to work is: killall abcdefghijklmnop that is, it looks like killall only looks at the first 16 characters. I don't see anything about this is the man page. Is this the appropriate behavior? -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen@math.missouri.edu http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message