killall behaviour

[Harald Becker]

Hi Alfonso !

 > I just wanted to know if it is a "will" or "just happens" in
> find_pid_by_name.

The manpage says, killall shall send the signal to all processes running 
the command. In fact is, you run the same command twice, when you do 
this symlinking. As different kernel versions provide different 
information about the running processes, it may be hard to dettermine, 
which job you want to kill.

Please don't misunderstand. I do not say, there is no problem with 
Busybox. The problem is, you need to give full information, to let us 
look what's possibly going wrong. Your question is incomplete to give a 
concrete answer.

That is:
- your Busybox version
- your Kernel version
- underlying file system you stored the files
- exact list what information your kernel provides for the two processes
   (see under /pro/PID_NUMBER/comm & cmdline & status)
- what is shown for the processes in ps and top

--
Harald