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Date:      Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:26:38 +0100 (BST)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ed Schouten <ed@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/bin/pkill pkill.1 pkill.c
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.1.10.0809301625500.75798@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <200809281644.m8SGiNZD041087@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200809281644.m8SGiNZD041087@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On Sun, 28 Sep 2008, Ed Schouten wrote:

>  SVN rev 183438 on 2008-09-28 16:44:15Z by ed
>
>  Don't automatically prepend the "tty" prefix to `pkill -t' arguments.
>
>  Because we now enforce UNIX98-style PTY's, we now use a lot of TTY's
>  that don't have the traditional /dev/ttyXX naming scheme. pkill(1)'s -t
>  flag automatically prepended the word "tty" to each TTY that was passed
>  on the command line. This meant that `pkill -t pts/0' was actually
>  converted to /dev/ttypts/0. Disable this broken behaviour for now.

Once we've decided on the right long-term fix, it should be an MFC candidate 
so that 7.x userspaces work properly on 8.x kernels in the future.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge



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