From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 24 22:26:58 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EED1D16A420; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 22:26:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gad@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp4.server.rpi.edu (smtp4.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF55743D46; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 22:26:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gad@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp4.server.rpi.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j7OMQss7017025; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 18:26:55 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: <200508241938.j7OJcSNW066686@repoman.freebsd.org> <200508241602.59424.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20050824205627.GD755@garage.freebsd.pl> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 18:26:52 -0400 To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek , John Baldwin From: Garance A Drosehn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-RPI-SA-Score: undef - spam-scanning disabled X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) on 128.113.2.4 Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/pkill pkill.1 pkill.c X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 22:26:58 -0000 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... -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@FreeBSD.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA