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On 02/07/2012 05:21 PM, Craig Small wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 11:08:43AM -0500, Anne C. Hanna wrote:
>> Running the skill command in the form "skill jpilot" (jpilot being just
>> an example) stopped working at some point in the last month or so.  I now
>> simply get the response "skill: failed to parse argument: 'jpilot'", and
>> jpilot does not actually get killed.  "skill -c jpilot" works just fine.
> We have been doing a fair bit of re-work in the command line parsing and it
> looks like this mode of use got missed.

Heh, maybe I'm just lazy but it's the primary way I tend to use the command.  :D

>> Was this mode of using skill deliberately eliminated, or is something
>> wrong?
> Something went wrong. skill is pretty old and its one of those 'forgotten
> tools' within procps but I'll see if we can reinstate this way of using
> it.

Thanks, I appreciate it.  I understand it's getting kind of deprecated these
days, but it's nice to at least not have it be broken.

 - Anne
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