[RFC] [patch] pkill verbose option

[jhell]

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

Ugh! ignore the pkill -v comment. Should have noticed the -V instead.


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  jhell