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From: Craig Small <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:06 AM
Subject: Re: Bug#558044:
To: "Jason A. Spiro" <[email protected]>


On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 02:59:38AM -0500, Jason A. Spiro wrote:
> Maybe you could gradually transition it in, by making both options
> work for a year or two and printing a warning message, then disabling
> -v.
That's been done before, there were lots of complaints.

> Which Linux does not use Debian procps?  For example, it looks like
> Fedora uses Debian procps.[1]
They copied the FAQ from upstream, I saw nothing about it being a Debian
specific patched version.

> What would you think if we posted on the debian-devel list and asked
> for more advice on other possible options to prevent accidental
> killing-all-processes with pkill -v?
If the bulk of debian-devel said yes this is a good idea I'd regretfully
change it.

Now the rm -rf / blah protection is quite neat and perhaps something
like it could be done. I'm not sure what the criteria would be.

 - Craig
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