Bug#961761: psmisc: killall fails to kill processes with names longer than 15 characters

> On Fri, 29 May 2020 at 09:21, Frank Heckenbach > wrote: > > killall fails to kill processes with names longer than 15 > > characters. > Actually it does. But the comm length has increased for some kernels. > > If you're asking it to kill something with another name because the > comm is "killa

Bug#961761: psmisc: killall fails to kill processes with names longer than 15 characters

Package: psmisc Version: 23.2-1 Severity: serious killall fails to kill processes with names longer than 15 characters. According to the manpage: -e, --exact Require an exact match for very long names. If a command name is longer than 15 characters, the full name may be