Package: psmisc Version: 23.7-2 Followup-For: Bug #1122571 Hi Craig,
thanks for the quick feedback. I could not reproduce with any other combination and suspected it must be due to that specific parameter's positional handling. I've had a look now and sure enough, it's a classic: https://github.com/acg/psmisc/blob/master/src/killall.c#L824C1-L829C8 case 'V': /* option check is optind-1 but sig name is optind */ if (strcmp(argv[optind-1],"-V") == 0 || strncmp(argv[optind-1],"--",2) == 0) { print_version(); return 0; } The second strncmp does it since at this time and with the given opt string, getopt would have advanced its internal pointer. Assuming argv[optind-1] still holds the token is generally the wrong approach to sort out whether short or long option is present. - Oliver
