Package: psmisc
Version: 22.21-2.1+b1
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/bin/killall
User sees on man page:
-g, --process-group
Kill the process group to which the process belongs. The kill
signal is only sent once per group, even if multiple processes
belonging to the same process group were found.
User thinks: "Wow that's exactly what I want to do. I looked at all the
kill(1) related commands and finally found one that can do this!"
But then he discovers that he cannot simply give killall(1) a process ID
like the good old kill(1) command, he has to give a name!
He thinks "I just want to give the ID, which I happen to have. Names
open up a whole new can of worms."
Therefore please change
NAME
killall - kill processes by name
to
killall - kill processes by name or id (or in fact by file too,
as I note with slashes you say.)
And at
SYNOPSIS
add --process-id PID
And do it even if there is some other command that can do -g.
I mean imagine a kill command that doesn't also accept PIDs !?
