Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and trying to make Ubuntu
better.
If you check the killall manpage you will see the following option:
-e, --exact
Require an exact match for very long names. If a command name is
longer than 15 charac‐
ters, the full name may be unavailable (i.e. it is swapped out).
In this case, killall
will kill everything that matches within the first 15 characters.
With -e, such entries
are skipped. killall prints a message for each skipped entry if
-v is specified in ad‐
dition to -e,
So if you have a long name I'd recommend to use the --exact option. I do not
believe this is a bug in the software but an expected behavior. Since this does
not seem to me like a bug I'll be marking it as Invalid. However, if you
disagree please add some reasonable explanation and set the bug status back to
New and we will revisit it.
** Changed in: psmisc (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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killall only matching first 15 characters of process name
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