[Bug 1790732] [NEW] killall unable to find privileged processes

2018-09-04 Thread Lewis Hyatt
Public bug reported: Hello- In Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS, we have psmisc version 23.1. In this version, the default for "killall" is to kill processes in the current namespace only, and this causes killall to attempt to read /proc/$pid/ns/pid for every process. If a process is privileged (setuid, or has

[Bug 1790732] Re: killall unable to find privileged processes

2018-09-05 Thread Lewis Hyatt
Thanks for looking into this. I see the necessary fix referenced in the ChangeLog here: https://gitlab.com/psmisc/psmisc/blob/master/ChangeLog . But I'm afraid I don't have any more information beyond that, perhaps this version is not released yet, but maybe the Debian maintainers are aware of the

[Bug 1790732] Re: killall unable to find privileged processes

2018-09-07 Thread Lewis Hyatt
OK, thanks for the information, makes sense. We will work around with /usr/local/bin wrapper for now. It's a bit unfortunate, that the change made upstream for psmisc 23.2,will make the "-n 0" option illegal again, but it's workable for us like this. -- You received this bug notification because