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

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 03:41:43PM +0300, Andrey Chernov wrote:
+> On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 12:59:00PM +0100, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
+> > Let's say you call 'pkill sleep'. First it creates list of the matching
+> > processes and when the list is done, it starts killing processes from
+> > the list. When there is a race, so that process was inserted into the
+> > list, but disappeared before killing, pkill(1) will quit with an error.
+> > Which is bogus: there were 8 sleep processes, the 5th one disappeared,
+> > so first 4 was killed, last 3 are still alive and pkill(1) returned an
+> > error.
+> 
+> Well, my initial statement will be modified slightly.
+> 
+> 1) For SIGKILL, pkill should ignore disappeared precesses, as NetBSD does.
+> 2) For any other signal, it should issue _warning_ and not error & stop.

I can't agree here. You know, that running the same pkill command a bit
later (few miliseconds?) will not give you the warning?

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
pjd at FreeBSD.org                           http://www.FreeBSD.org
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