Hi Jan, The issue is that the command name is increasing in length in the kernel. So the utilities needed to increase their command name length as well.
ps -o comm <PID> Would show you the field it's trying to match against and unless you have a very recent kernel it will be truncated to 16 characters. However leaving psmisc alone is not the answer either because when you do eventually get a newer kernel, the matching will fail again because you will have no way of specifying names longer than 16 characters. Strictly speaking killall is working correctly. You're specifying a name longer than 16 characters and the process command name is trucated to 16 characters so it's not a match. It is a bit annoying and unexpected though. An idea I have been toying with is to check if the command name are exactly 16 characters and the given name is 16 characters or more and match the first 16 as well. That way it's going to sort of conditionally work like before. I'll need to think about false positives and the most efficient way of doing it but that could solve things I think. - Craig -- Craig Small https://dropbear.xyz/ csmall at : dropbear.xyz Debian GNU/Linux https://www.debian.org/ csmall at : debian.org Mastodon: @smalls...@social.dropbear.xyz Twitter: @smallsees GPG fingerprint: 5D2F B320 B825 D939 04D2 0519 3938 F96B DF50 FEA5
