cvs commit: src/usr.bin/pkill pkill.1 pkill.c

Garance A Drosehn gad at FreeBSD.org
Wed Aug 24 22:26:58 GMT 2005


At 6:14 PM -0400 8/24/05, Garance A Drosehn wrote:
>
>I'd slightly prefer something other than adding another option,
>but I can't think of anything which is particularly better.  The
>only other suggestion might be to have "daemon.lpid" filenames
>instead of "daemon.pid", but that also seems icky to me.

To extend that a bit:  it might be nice if daemons which used
the new library would create "daemon.lpid" files, just so it
is easy to tell which pid-files are using the new code.  But I
think it would be ugly for `pkill' to alter its behavior based
on the filename given...

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Garance Alistair Drosehn     =      gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer               or   gad at FreeBSD.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;             Troy, NY;  USA


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