From: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 06:17:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] daemon: add tests
Message-ID: <C9D7A58F-853D-4DAB-B27D-78D60B8EE152@silverinsanity.com>
In-Reply-To: <1325692539-26748-1-git-send-email-drizzd@aon.at>


On Jan 4, 2012, at 10:55 AM, Clemens Buchacher wrote:

> 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"
>> 
>> How portable is this one (I usually do not trust use of pkill anywhere)?
> 
> 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