[redhat-lspp] [RFC][PATCH] killall context regex and userid matching

George Wilson ltcgcw at us.ibm.com
Thu Sep 22 22:39:55 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 11:32 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> I got to thinking about this patch...do we want it to also iterate using 
> loginuid? We may want to kill all apps no matter what account they su'd to 
> and started them under.
> 
> -Steve

That's a very good point.  Shouldn't be at all difficult to do.  I'll go
ahead and make the hack.

I'll also add Stephen's caveat on regex category matching to the
manpage.  To make the matching really useful, it would be nice to have
killall understand the range syntax.

-- 
George Wilson
IBM Linux Technology Center
<ltcgcw at us.ibm.com>




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