Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 12:52:17 -0500 From: jhell <jhell@DataIX.net> To: Eitan Adler <eitanadlerlist@gmail.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RFC] [patch] pkill verbose option Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1002031246160.37629@pragry.qngnvk.ybpny> In-Reply-To: <a0777e081002030700l53d9cae2v74a181315ed55277@mail.gmail.com> References: <a0777e081002030700l53d9cae2v74a181315ed55277@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 10:00, eitanadlerlist@ wrote: > I added an option to pkill which lists what processes it kills and what > signal is sent. If no signals are sent it prints out the same message > killall does. > Unfortunately that patch works but has unintended operation that can be seen with the following. sleep 1000 & pkill sleep No matching processes belonging to you were found [1]+ Terminated: 15 sleep 10000 It then kills sleep and still prints no processes belong to you message. Now pkill -v sleep on my system actually causes my Xserver to exit with a unexpected signal 15. Without the patches it works as it should... Overhead endured. -- jhell
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