can use this small and nifty utility. Create compatibility
symlinks from /usr/bin for the time being to avoid breaking
custom scripts relying on the hardcoded path to the utility.
If pkill(1) takes root, its source should be repocopied some
day to src/bin.
Idea by: des
Discussed with: brooks (in cvs-src and cvs-all)
This includes fixes and cleanups listed below:
- If a process dissappears while we are signalling it, don't count it as a
match/error.
- Better handling of errors and messages.
- Downgrade failure to kill(2) (other than ESRCH) from fatal error to a
warning; otherwise processing aborts and possibly matching killees would
remain unsignalled. This makes pkill match the Solaris behavior.
- Exit with 2 on usage errors as documented.
Obtained from: NetBSD
Glanced at by: maintainer (gad) [a bit different version of this patch]
% pgrep <something> [to verify which processes match]
% pkill <something>
To speed such operation up, add -I option which works like rm(1)'s -i
option (unfortunately -i is already used in pkill(1)), ie. pkill will
ask for confirmation before killing each matching process.
After adding -j, -F, -i, -S, -o and -L options and other improvements,
I think I can add myself to the copyright header.
Glanced at by: maintainer (gad)
processes.
This option can be also found in Solaris and Linux.
- Use timercmp(9) macro for timeval comparsion.
- Include time.h directly, don't depend on stat.h doing it for us.
Reviewed by: gad (first point)
MFC after: 3 days
- Rename IS_KERNPROC() macro to PSKIP() and extend its functionality.
Now it'll skip calling process and system processes when -S is not given.
As a side effect it fixes '-n' option. Before it was always matching
calling process (because of missing 'if (kp->ki_pid == mypid)' check)
and after that, calling process was ignored.
- When '-l' option is given and there are no arguments, use p_comm as an
arguments list (this is helpful for kernel threads matching).
Reviewed by: gad
MFC after: 3 days
the first user/group. Caused huge fun in error messages from large script.
Old: pgrep -u root,NoSuchUser,daemon -> pgrep: unknown user `root'
Now: pgrep -u root,NoSuchUser,daemon -> pgrep: unknown user `NoSuchUser'
Obtained from: NetBSD (rev. 1.8)
MFC After: 1 week (if re@ would have approved this)
The big lines are:
NODEV -> NULL
NOUDEV -> NODEV
udev_t -> dev_t
udev2dev() -> findcdev()
Various minor adjustments including handling of userland access to kernel
space struct cdev etc.
"system processes" to always ignore. Based on my testing with `-D',
I am pretty sure this is what we want for 5.x-current. If my thinking
is wrong, this also makes it easier to switch to a different check.
what are supported in `ps':
-M Extract values associated with the name list from the
specified core instead of the default /dev/kmem.
-N Extract the name list from the specified system instead
of the default /kernel.
Written by: Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira <lioux@FreeBSD.org>
Obtained from: the sysutils/pkill port
straight from NetBSD (except to add the RCS-ID lines for FreeBSD).
These will probably require a few updates before they are added to
the FreeBSD buildworld. I might MFC these to 4.x-stable after 4.10.
Discussed on: freebsd-arch
Obtained from: NetBSD (and OpenBSD also has these)
