On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 12:15:26PM -0400, Dave C. wrote:
> killall is fine - the only difference between kill and killall is that
> kill takes PID's killall takes a pattern to match against process names.
>
> They are both capable of sending any signal to any PID..
I beg to differ. Killall on solaris kills EVERYTHING. No PIDs or patterns
are supplied, only a signal.
More from 'man killall' on SunOS 5.8:
"SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/killall [ signal ]"
and from 'man pkill':
"NAME
pgrep, pkill - find or signal processes by name and other
attributes
SYNOPSIS
pkill [ -signal ] [ -fnvx ] [ -P ppidlist ] [ -g pgrplist
] [ -s sidlist ] [ -u euidlist ] [ -U uidlist ] [
-G gidlist ] [ -t termlist ] [ pattern ]"
What you say holds true for Linux and FreeBSD (at least), though.
O.
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