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

[John Baldwin]

On Wednesday 24 August 2005 06:26 pm, Garance A Drosehn wrote:
> 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...

Yeah, I think that's uglier than a new option personally. :)  I'm ok with the 
-L approach.

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