Re: [Toybox] [PATCH] killall should kill scripts too.

2017-12-16 Thread enh
I don't think the world is helped by having two different imperfect heuristics, and I do think it will cause bug reports for us. I also think if anyone wants sensible behavior (or more control) they should probably use pgrep/pkill instead of killall... (Where the multi argument semantics are alrea

Re: [Toybox] [PATCH] killall should kill scripts too.

2017-12-16 Thread Rob Landley
On 12/16/2017 06:59 PM, enh wrote: > That's my point: there's no way to implement this correctly, so the > least worst choice is to just implement it the same as everyone else. > Whatever we do will be surprising in some instances, but "the same > surprises as the other systems" is at least managea

Re: [Toybox] [PATCH] killall should kill scripts too.

2017-12-16 Thread enh
That's my point: there's no way to implement this correctly, so the least worst choice is to just implement it the same as everyone else. Whatever we do will be surprising in some instances, but "the same surprises as the other systems" is at least manageable. I don't see how anyone wins from toybo

Re: [Toybox] [PATCH] killall should kill scripts too.

2017-12-16 Thread Rob Landley
Blah, I got deep enough into https://github.com/landley/mkroot/commits/master I forgot to check my mail for a couple days... On 12/14/2017 08:01 PM, enh wrote: > On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 6:32 AM, Rob Landley wrote: >> On 12/13/2017 01:48 PM, enh wrote: >>> Found running LTP file system tests on An

Re: [Toybox] [PATCH] Use NULL rather than 0 in vargs. (Rob Landley)

2017-12-16 Thread enh
On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 10:05 AM, Rob Landley wrote: > On 12/10/2017 08:30 PM, James McMechan wrote: >> Yes, history still has a lot of sharp teeth waiting to bite. >> Alas, it is not just old buildings, people are still producing stuff >> with oddball settings. >> e.g. my controller software is h

Re: [Toybox] [PATCH] Use NULL rather than 0 in vargs.

2017-12-16 Thread enh
On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 12:28 PM, Rob Landley wrote: > My first weekend back home in Austin, and GOING to pick something to > spend some time on, and I guess it's this. :) > > On 12/05/2017 11:32 AM, enh wrote: >> want me to switch to arrays? (and if so, presumably using ARRAY_LEN >> rather than a