Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 15:12:23 +0100 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> To: Andrey Chernov <ache@freebsd.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/pkill pkill.c Message-ID: <20051116141223.GB7992@garage.freebsd.pl> In-Reply-To: <20051116124143.GA2104@nagual.pp.ru> References: <200511161103.jAGB30d4062758@repoman.freebsd.org> <20051116112419.GA1363@nagual.pp.ru> <20051116115900.GA7992@garage.freebsd.pl> <20051116124143.GA2104@nagual.pp.ru>
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--mojUlQ0s9EVzWg2t Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. +>=20 +> Well, my initial statement will be modified slightly. +>=20 +> 1) For SIGKILL, pkill should ignore disappeared precesses, as NetBSD doe= s. +> 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? --=20 Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! --mojUlQ0s9EVzWg2t Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDez5HForvXbEpPzQRAsdoAKCodHpxN50hwjtAVFH6Ba/yguGbgQCfc/vx /RcTIWe0S4uLcqTEsUMEB84= =QD3y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --mojUlQ0s9EVzWg2t--
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