[PATCH] killall5: return 2 if no processes got killed

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Mon Dec 16 02:23:13 UTC 2013


On Friday 13 December 2013 19:40, Uros Vampl wrote:
> This matches killall5 from sysvinit. From its manpage:
> 
> EXIT STATUS
>        The program return zero if it killed processes. It return 2 if
>        no process were killed, and 1 if it was unable to find any 
>        processes (/proc/ is missing).
> 
> For this to work kernel processes need to be filtered out, this patch 
> does that as well

Whatever I try, I end up with ~50 more bytes of code.

What was the situation which prompted you to write this patch?


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