as the original author of Linux' pgrep, I support the idea of making the use of -v an error unless a search criterium other than pattern is specified. (-f is not a search criterium in itself.)
there is a sort of precedent for this, since -o and -n has always been disallowed with -v since the behaviour would be useless. wrt. adding a verbose mode for pkill I think it would be best done by adding -l, even if other kill programs use that option to list signal names. but that's not pertinent to this change request :-) -- best wishes, Kjetil T. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
