On 15 January 2012 at 19:02 Nicholas Marriott <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi > > I think that error message is misleading if you are running pkill as > root. > Yes, I agree. > How about instead of only printing if it did nothing, -l makes it always > print "%d processes signalled"? Currently, the diff from Freebsd prints a line for each process that is signalled: # pkill -l top kill -15 20908 kill -15 9439 I like the fact you can see which pids were affected. If none are affected, I can change the message to: "No matching processes were found." mark
