On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 09:39:10PM +0000, Moray Allan wrote: > It seems to me that it is a bug in procps that pkill/pgrep don't work > for long process names without any warning, so I am reassigning the > bug report to that package). Currently plain pkill/pgrep with a > process name longer than the OS limit will always do nothing. > Automatic wildcard behaviour, including by truncating the process name > argument passed to pkill, might be dangerous (though not much more > dangerous than other use of pkill), but perhaps it should fail with an > error in this case, or at least give a warning. Or you are getting process names and command lines mixed up. Which is what you are doing.
You cannot give an error, go look at what the kernel gives you to see that. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ http://enc.com.au/ csmall at : enc.com.au Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org/ csmall at : debian.org GPG fingerprint: 5D2F B320 B825 D939 04D2 0519 3938 F96B DF50 FEA5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
