From 8cb744f5badac1363b863de4e0709e9d74ba05bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Bruce A. Mah" Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 20:17:33 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Note that the regular expression syntax supported by killall(1) changed when it became a C program. Submitted by: sheldonh --- release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT | 2 ++ release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT b/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT index cbe8832cf710..e98f6b978b20 100644 --- a/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT +++ b/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT @@ -163,6 +163,8 @@ and /etc/periodic.conf. [MERGED] logger(1) can now send messages directly to a remote syslog. [MERGED] which(1) and killall(1) are now C programs, rather than Perl scripts. +As a result, killall's -m option now uses the regular expression +syntax of regex(3), rather than that of perl(1). finger(1) now has the ability to support fingering aliases, via the finger.conf(5) file. [MERGED] diff --git a/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT b/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT index 18c561222ce0..abfff1553c50 100644 --- a/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT +++ b/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT @@ -196,6 +196,8 @@ GDB now supports hardware watchpoints (using the kernel's debug register support that has been introduced in FreeBSD 4.0). [MERGED] which(1) and killall(1) are now C programs, rather than Perl scripts. +As a result, killall's -m option now uses the regular expression +syntax of regex(3), rather than that of perl(1). finger(1) now has the ability to support fingering aliases, via the finger.conf(5) file. [MERGED]