Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 06:40:00 -0800 (PST) From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: bin/5596: killall's bogus diagnostics Message-ID: <199801311440.GAA19159@hub.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/5596; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: mi@aldan.algebra.com Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/5596: killall's bogus diagnostics Date: 31 Jan 1998 15:13:33 +0100 Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com> writes: > >Description: > > If a process exists, but can not be killed (belongs to > another user, for example), killall(1) will still report > "No matching processes" This is intentionally and not a bug. killall(1) try to kill only processes which can be killed. If I call `killall ftp', killall should only kill my ftp clients and not complains about the not killable ftp processes which belongs to other users. -- Wolfram Schneider <wosch@freebsd.org> http://www.freebsd.org/~wosch/
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