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

joerg at britannica.bec.de joerg at britannica.bec.de
Wed Nov 16 14:06:59 GMT 2005


On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 03:41:43PM +0300, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> 
> 1) For SIGKILL, pkill should ignore disappeared precesses, as NetBSD does.
> 2) For any other signal, it should issue _warning_ and not error & stop.

The process didn't receive the signal, it died for itself. The new
behaviour is identical to whether it died before the list was build.
Warning about it or stopping with error just makes the two cases
asymmetrical.

Joerg


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