Bug#698034: cannot pkill matchbox-keyboard

2013-03-05 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-03-06 01:00, Craig Small wrote: Or you are getting process names and command lines mixed up. Which is what you are doing. I agree that the bug submitter didn't know there can be a difference between the process name and file name (and hadn't read the pkill man page). I think I know t

Bug#698034: cannot pkill matchbox-keyboard

2013-03-05 Thread Craig Small
On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 09:39:10PM +, 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 th

Bug#698034: cannot pkill matchbox-keyboard

2013-03-05 Thread Moray Allan
reassign 698034 procps retitle 698034 pkill and related tools fail for long process names without warning stop On 2013-01-12 23:04, patrick295767 wrote: > pkill matchbox-keyboard does not work > it works with killall This fails with plain pkill due to a limitation of pkill/Linux. The pkill(1) m

Bug#698034: cannot pkill matchbox-keyboard

2013-01-12 Thread patrick295767
Package: matchbox-keyboard Version: 0.1+svn20080916-3 Severity: normal Hallo, I would like to mention that killall is not on every boxes. A standard is pkill first to work. pkill matchbox-keyboard does not work it works with killall please make sure that users can kill the process, since it c