Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 05:24:23 -0700 From: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Samuel J. Greear" <dragonk@evilcode.net> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/51430: Patch, renice convenience option Message-ID: <20030502122423.GC46597@HAL9000.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <200304270450.h3R4oGvs037254@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200304270450.h3R4oGvs037254@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Sat, Apr 26, 2003, Samuel J. Greear wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR bin/51430; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
> From: "Samuel J. Greear" <dragonk@evilcode.net>
> To: <DougB@FreeBSD.org>
> Cc: <dragonk@evilcode.net>, <FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org>
> Subject: Re: bin/51430: Patch, renice convenience option
> Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 22:37:59 -0600 (MDT)
>
> Doug,
>
> Would it have made you feel better if I had submitted a standalone
> application, named 'reniceall' (re: killall), with additional
> worthless functionality? Changing the niceness of processes in a
> jail perhaps! hrmmmm!!! Really, where has the line been drawn?
I think Doug's point is that this sort of thing is feeping
creaturism, given that you can just write a script to do:
ps -acxo pid,command | awk "{if (\"$command\" == \$2) print \$1 }"
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