reopen 558044 = thankyou The current way of using pgrep -v can often lead to a large number of processes killed and often this is not the intention of the user. A way of limiting the damage needs to be added to pkill without changing the flag.
Some ideas are to disable -v if no process (before the negation) is found or to not by default be able to use -v if no other flags are used. In other words "pkill -v myproc" will not work but "kill -v myproc -u root" will and "pkill --some-flag myproc" will. -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 http://www.enc.com.au/ csmall at : enc.com.au http://www.debian.org/ Debian GNU/Linux, software should be Free -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
