On 12/23/2012 08:45:07 PM, David Seikel wrote:
> > Like rm'ing something that does not exist, the end result is the
> > same, except for the useless error.
Using the host version on Ubuntu:
$ rm doesnotexist
rm: cannot remove `doesnotexist': No such file or directory
You're thinking rm -f maybe?
> > The thing does not exist,
> > killall is no longer running. The error message is superfluous,
as
> > the result you wanted is exactly what you get.
>
> I think the objection is that PIDs aren't monotonic (the PID
> namespace wraps), so if you kill things in increasing PID order this
> killall instance isn't guaranteed to be last so it won't necessarily
> kill everything it should.
A valid objection for not killing yourself until you are done killing
everyone else. No excuse for an error message though, once killall is
done, the requested task is accomplished, that's not an error, that's
success.
Using the host version in ubuntu:
$ killall doesnotexist
doesnotexist: no process found
You're thinking killall -q maybe? Which toybox implements?
./toybox killall -q killall
Rob
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