Re: [PATCH 1/2] daemon: add tests
On Jan 4, 2012, at 10:55 AM, Clemens Buchacher wrote:
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> On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 11:34:08AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>> + # kill git-daemon child of git
>>> + say >&3 "Stopping git daemon ..."
>>> + pkill -P "$DAEMON_PID"
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>> How portable is this one (I usually do not trust use of pkill anywhere)?
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> I read that it is supposed to be more portable than skill or killall.
> But I have no way to research this. I have implemented a workaround
> using only 'ps' and 'kill' in [PATCH 3/6] avoid use of pkill.
As a data point: pkill and skill do not exist on OS X 10.7, but killall does.
~~ Brian Gernhardt