[haiku-commits] Re: haiku: hrev48777 - src/data/package_infos/ppc src/data/package_infos/m68k src/data/package_infos/arm build/jam/images/definitions src/data/package_infos
- From: Adrien Destugues <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 15:44:52 +0100
On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 02:14:05PM +0100, François Revol wrote:
> On 06/02/2015 02:23, Augustin Cavalier wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 7:08 PM, John Scipione <jscipione@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> Firstly, do we want to use the kill command provided by coreutils over the
> >> Haiku one?. The Haiku one additionally allows you to kill a command by name
> >> as in 'kill DeskCalc' rather than by pid. However it doesn't provide a
> >> --help switch or a man page, just a usage statement. I assume we want the
> >> Haiku one, sorry if this is wrong.
> >>
> >
> The ability to kill by thread name is a BeOS heritage, and many of us
> still use it (and complain when it doesn't work on linux).
>
> It's quite likely than at least some scripts somewhere use it somewhere.
>
> I thought we used to implement it as a patch over the coreutils kill,
> but maybe not.
We have patch to both the bash builtin kill and coreutils. Both should
be sent upstream for review at least, and possibly for inclusion there
making the feature available in Linux.
--
Adrien.
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