-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 >>> imagine you have N services named: >>> >>> service service1 service2 ... >>> >>> Now you want to stop 'service' and you run: 'rcctl stop >>> service' >>> >>> all (not just one) of them are gone? >>> >>> >>> rc.subr invokes pkill and does a "startswith" match but does >>> not require a perfect/complete match. >>> >>> What do you think about this patch to require a perfect match >>> when sending invoking pkill/pgrep? > > Won't work. Carefully read pgrep(1) again.
After reading the man page again I even found something more fitting: > -x Require an exact match of the process name, or argument > list if -f is given. The default is to match any substring. Since it seems to do what I'm aiming for, could you give me an example for what won't work? thanks! my tests: # ps ax|grep tor 24508 ?? S 0:03.85 tor -f torrc2 19493 ?? S 0:00.79 tor -f torrc # pgrep -fx tor # no result expected # pgrep -fx 'tor -f torrc' # expected result: 19493 but NOT 24508 19493 # pgrep -fx 'tor -f torrc2' # expected result: 24508 24508 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJVhWugAAoJEFv7XvVCELh0U6wP/0vOT73glYbmFllM2WlLLCqF 7PAovqHtwI+fqYeD7rovfHutOXkLvw4AYGEAeCpsP+og3WNY27Qh3BtVpWY/eNI2 N7FlBSmMBmD/QJPArYkQdmj8C5NTgkHwjUoFfOaGsf/hHIIiqunT4ohkYi9+XbPG LW8i/aqL2MCpMhQJn6isMsVpdjLp0Vf7A1n0BuR03cwwzO/Ij4xkZFubmdj8KOSv FZy5SjNDPteTTOFPxrvR47Nuz6ztPAo1BWmHdr9E2acLyvervN5dcKuSHNMitZrH fMwSgo6hkcu/Uj36fybguMPasvfCwS6Q5rD7D0M6MjuQDFfBw6mOckbcr//65iK1 n4/UDU9VyT041Rhjq0uXVIVNmbpHbKCSUFg1yBRpRwJSE7Lx7QDRF152y/v0Ble9 qa28bkOfhSbGwbDwasg7sP7CsZrqI7ebyQNVq8jxDrR5B0wM4Wkpt7VcGTRRgvhj clAl0hhUNxlCI+TGRslaWs1O839m+gDS6Lf3eaoEMSrWdKrBitUsISzZykPyoSu0 pNVQQtWFkII+CyP4E8Vh5HM8WQp01odEueOV8Vf8DUVMV14WTd9nAbILx2KEgNU5 aRvXolxtGQfTW94UN59e9LJWRm0l7ikRoS7XKJ/ZQQd0IV91AySVrl6OFHybrk09 gmimAMIHiQkuhFpu4TYW =MTr3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
