In article <20121121080326.gl...@snowdrop.l8s.co.uk>, David Laight <da...@l8s.co.uk> wrote: >On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 05:52:02PM -0500, Christos Zoulas wrote: >> Module Name: src >> Committed By: christos >> Date: Tue Nov 20 22:52:02 UTC 2012 >> >> Modified Files: >> src/usr.bin/pkill: pkill.c >> >> Log Message: >> Don't use p_comm since it is only 16 characters long and you can find the >> full argv[0]. It is just confusing to have a long command name, that ps >> shows as the long command name, and then when you try to kill it using >> the full command name as displayed you don't get a match. While there >> fix a format nit, and remove the main() declaration. > >This might break some scripts.
Well, I could put backwards compatibility, but it is more dangerous to do so in the long term. Kids: don't use pkill(1) in scripts. christos
