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Re: RFS: pslist (3rd try) -- utility that lists, kills, or renices a process and its descendants



> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 05:16:48PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> > Dear mentors,
> >
> > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "pslist".
>
> Here we go again, with my changes after Ben Finney's recommendations,
> and a Standards Version bump to the just-released Policy 3.8.2 :)
>
> * Package name    : pslist
>   Version         : 1.3-1
>   Upstream Author : Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> (myself)
> * URL             : http://devel.ringlet.net/sysutils/pslist/
> * License         : BSD-2
>   Section         : misc
>   Programming Lang: Perl
>
> It builds these binary packages:
> pslist     - utility that controls a process and its descendants
>
>  pslist is a simple utility to list the process IDs (PIDs) of a process and
>  all its children, and its children's children, and so on.  If invoked with

Hm, indeed that child recursion could not easily be cooked up by one-liners 
around pgrep and/or pkill.

>  a command name which ends in 'kill', it sends a signal to a selected group
>  of processes.  If invoked with a command name which ends in 'renice',
>  it sets the nice level of the selected group of processes.
>
> > As witnessed by a recent exchange on the Debian Russian mailing list -
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-russian/2009/05/msg00571.html -
> > there is indeed a demand (albeit limited) for such a utility,
> > so I thought I'd share with the world something I wrote way back
> > in 2000 and have used ever since :)
> >
> > The package has been tested with lintian and pbuilder.
> >
> > The upload would fix these bugs: 530539 (ITP)
>
> The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
> dget -x
> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/pslist/pslist_1.3-1.dsc

Uploaded. Thanks!

P.S. I don't think I'm capable enough to properly test the correctness of your 
other package of wmanager, hence I hope you will find another sponsor for it.

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