---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Craig Small <csm...@enc.com.au> Date: Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 5:14 AM Subject: Re: Bug#558044: pkill, pgrep: don't use "-v" for negation; it's dangerous & some think -v means verbose To: "Jason A. Spiro" <jasonspi...@gmail.com>
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 04:09:30AM -0500, Jason A. Spiro wrote: > When? What were the complaints? :) It was quite a few a years ago and it was basically "we want it the other way" > But Craig, aren't you the upstream maintainer of procps? No. Albert is. I'm the Debian procps maintainer. I can only generate Debian-specific diffs, so thats why changing the flags is a bad idea. I'm also the psmisc (eg killall) maintainer. > Good idea. I have researched your idea. From the first forty or so > Google search results for [ "pkill -v" ], it looks like nobody in > those search results uses "pkill -v some_process_name" except by > accident. They only use -v purposefully when they use it with -u, as > in "pkill -v -u root" or "pkill -v -u 0,1" or "pkill -v -u > root,daemon,nobody,gdm". Maybe if you want to use -v without -u, you > should need to pass the long option --invert-match instead of the > short option -v. What do you think? Something like that would be better. Not changing the flag but disabling it for somewhat obvious errors; and then having another flag, a long option, that means yes really do it. - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 http://www.enc.com.au/ csmall at : enc.com.au http://www.debian.org/ Debian GNU/Linux, software should be Free -- Jason Spiro: software/web developer, packager, trainer, IT consultant. I support Linux, UNIX, Windows, and more. Contact me to discuss your needs. +1 (416) 992-3445 / www.jspiro.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
