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From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr>
To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>
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Subject: Re: killall longprocname
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From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>
Subject: Re: killall longprocname
Date: Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 07:58:49PM -0500

> Don't be too hasty to submit a PR.  The code in 4.4-STABLE looks like
> 
>                                 regfree(&rgx);
>                         } else {
>                                 if (strcmp(thiscmd, cmd) != 0)
>                                         matched = 0;
>                         }
> 
> suggesting that this "bug" may have been fixed in 5.0-CURRENT (really a
> strncmp would be the obvious way to fix the above code).  So you should
> first check to see if in CURRENT that 
> killall abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
> would work.  Of course so would
> killall abcdefghijklmnopqraaaaaaaa
> so there should still be an addition to the man page to explain this.

Yes, forgive my hastiness in writing the previous mail.
I meant a PR that adds to the manpage what I described :-/

-giorgos


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