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| author | Ed Schouten <ed@FreeBSD.org> | 2008-09-30 17:30:39 +0000 |
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| committer | Ed Schouten <ed@FreeBSD.org> | 2008-09-30 17:30:39 +0000 |
| commit | 18aa158f771bf46f35cae339850e8fffda764d46 (patch) | |
| tree | 668455da92df506249c2bb5349453c05edd4fbcb /bin/pkill/pkill.1 | |
| parent | 3e460b606a81f1d5bbb501dac83a089118866398 (diff) | |
| download | src-18aa158f771bf46f35cae339850e8fffda764d46.tar.gz src-18aa158f771bf46f35cae339850e8fffda764d46.zip | |
Improve the `pkill -t' handling, which I changed in my previous commit.
In my previous commit I disabled pkill(1)'s automatic prepending of the
"tty" string when `pkill -t' was being used. Re-enable it and stat()
both possible device names when called.
Requested by: jhb, rwatson (MFC)
MFC after: 1 month
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=183502
Diffstat (limited to 'bin/pkill/pkill.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | bin/pkill/pkill.1 | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/bin/pkill/pkill.1 b/bin/pkill/pkill.1 index 22b67bfd354c..725f27eff849 100644 --- a/bin/pkill/pkill.1 +++ b/bin/pkill/pkill.1 @@ -179,9 +179,10 @@ command. Restrict matches to processes associated with a terminal in the comma-separated list .Ar tty . -The -.Pa /dev/ -prefix of the terminal names must be omitted. +Terminal names may be of the form +.Pa tty Ns Ar xx +or the shortened form +.Ar xx . A single dash .Pq Ql - matches processes not associated with a terminal. |