On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 07:33:46PM -0000, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > I think it would be fine to remove the kill(1) bits entirely, but am not > bothered if you want to leave it in either.
We discussed this and I conceded it would be advantageous to leave it in because ps is in the procps package, which is not essential; using kill first and falling back to ps avoids having to grow the dependency graph given that procps will always be present (albeit not always configured) as part of the "required" set. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- status_of_proc() calls pidofproc() which calls kill, requiring ownership privileges on the process https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/246735 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
