Patch to make killall actually kill all PIDs with the specified name,

rather then busylooping trying to kill the first one until it dies.
Should be more efficient now, and will only send one signal to each
specified process.
 -Erik

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/procps/kill.c b/procps/kill.c
index 260f4a074..c6dc79f65 100644
--- a/procps/kill.c
+++ b/procps/kill.c
@@ -224,12 +224,18 @@ extern int kill_main(int argc, char **argv)
         else {
                 /* Looks like they want to do a killall.  Do that */
                 while (--argc >= 0) {
-                        int pid;
-
-                        while((pid = findPidByName( *argv))) {
-                                if (kill(pid, sig) != 0) 
-                                        fatalError( "Could not kill pid '%d': %s\n", pid, strerror(errno));
+                        pid_t* pidList;
+
+                        pidList = findPidByName( *argv);
+                        for(; pidList && pidList!=0; pidList++) {
+                                if (kill(*pidList, sig) != 0) 
+                                        fatalError( "Could not kill pid '%d': %s\n", *pidList, strerror(errno));
+                                else
+                                        errorMsg( "killed pid '%d'\n", *pidList);
                         }
+                        /* Note that we don't bother to free the memory
+                         * allocated in findPidByName().  It will be freed
+                         * upon exit, so we can save a byte or two */
                         argv++;
                 }
         }