[FM Discuss] definition of verbose and interactive
Santosh
ssantosh at fossix.org
Thu Apr 16 04:51:13 PDT 2009
adam hyde wrote:
> I'd like to change a sentence in the cli manual from :
> "Remember that the kill argument is non-interactive and non-verbose by
> default and hence must be used carefully."
>
> to
> "Remember that the kill argument is non-interactive (you cant stop it)
If you give a large number of PID's in the argument list for kill then before
kill kills all the process I guess we can interrupt it (Since in the source code
nowhere it is catching a interrupt). It should actually be, "it doesn't stop for
confirmation" instead of "you cant stop it".
> and non-verbose (it doesn't tell you what it is doing) by default and
> hence must be used carefully.""
This is perfect.
>
> is that accurate?
>
> (thanks Santosh for the last reply)
>
> adam
>
Santosh
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