[RFC] [patch] pkill verbose option

[Eitan Adler]

Yeah - I wasn't sure what else to use.
Does the -V work as intended? Is this a worthwhile patch?

IMHO the biggest problem with unix system commands is the lack of constancy
of the flags.

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 7:58 PM, jhell <jhell at dataix.net> wrote:

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> On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 12:52, jhell@ wrote:
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>> On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 10:00, eitanadlerlist@ wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>> sleep 1000 &
>> pkill sleep
>> No matching processes belonging to you were found
>> [1]+  Terminated: 15          sleep 10000
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>> It then kills sleep and still prints no processes belong to you message.
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>> Now pkill -v sleep on my system actually causes my Xserver to exit with a
>> unexpected signal 15.
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>> Without the patches it works as it should...
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>> Overhead endured.
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> Ugh! ignore the pkill -v comment. Should have noticed the -V instead.
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>  jhell
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