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Date:      Tue, 26 Sep 2000 06:30:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@inpharmatica.co.uk>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bin/15496: killall(1) limited to 16 character process names by  procfs(5)
Message-ID:  <200009261330.GAA51804@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR bin/15496; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@inpharmatica.co.uk>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/15496: killall(1) limited to 16 character process names by 
 procfs(5)
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 14:22:11 +0100

 Since killall(1) has recently transmogrified into a C program, I guess this PR
 might be closable.  However, the same bug still seems to be present:
 
 st-pancras:/tmp:# uname -a
 FreeBSD st-pancras.inpharmatica.co.uk 4.1.1-STABLE FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE #0:
 Tue Sep 26 12:32:33 BST 2000    
 root@st-pancras.inpharmatica.co.uk:/export/i386/obj/export/src/sys/ST-PANCRAS 
 i386
 st-pancras:/tmp:# file /usr/bin/killall
 /usr/bin/killall: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD),
 dynamically linked, stripped
 st-pancras:/tmp:# ./123456789012345 & 
 [1] 249
 st-pancras:/tmp:# ./1234567890123456 &
 [2] 250
 st-pancras:/tmp:# ./12345678901234567 &
 [3] 251
 st-pancras:/tmp:# head /proc/{249,250,251}/status 
 ==> /proc/249/status <==
 123456789012345 249 227 249 227 5,0 ctty 969973928,166376 0,0 0,6293 nanslp 0
 0 0,0,0,2,3,4,5,20,31,994,998 -
 
 ==> /proc/250/status <==
 1234567890123456 250 227 250 227 5,0 ctty 969973930,750074 0,0 0,6484 nanslp 0
 0 0,0,0,2,3,4,5,20,31,994,998 -
 
 ==> /proc/251/status <==
 1234567890123456 251 227 251 227 5,0 ctty 969973934,657696 0,0 0,6582 nanslp 0
 0 0,0,0,2,3,4,5,20,31,994,998 -
 st-pancras:/tmp:# killall 12345678901234567 
 No matching processes were found
 st-pancras:/tmp:# killall 1234567890123456
 [3]  - Terminated                    ./12345678901234567
 [2]  - Terminated                    ./1234567890123456
 
 	Cheers,
 
 	Matthew
 
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