Debian Bug report logs - #303528
/usr/bin/updatedb: kill updatedb process doesn't kill find process

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Package: findutils; Maintainer for findutils is Andreas Metzler <ametzler@debian.org>; Source for findutils is src:findutils (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Modesto Alexandre <alex@arcalpin.com>

Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 08:33:04 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: upstream

Found in version 4.1.20-5

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Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Andreas Metzler <ametzler@debian.org>:
Bug#303528; Package findutils. (full text, mbox, link).

Acknowledgement sent to Modesto Alexandre <alex@arcalpin.com>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Andreas Metzler <ametzler@debian.org>. (full text, mbox, link).

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From: Modesto Alexandre <alex@arcalpin.com>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: /usr/bin/updatedb: kill updatedb process doesn't kill find process
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 10:19:54 +0200
Package: findutils
Version: 4.1.20-5
Severity: minor
File: /usr/bin/updatedb


i launch an updatedb & process

and i want to kill them

i've made this, with : 

killall updatedb

updatedb was killed, but process find continues to crawl files

killall find

solves the problem




-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-1-686
Locale: LANG=fr_FR@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages findutils depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

-- no debconf information

Information forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Andreas Metzler <ametzler@debian.org>:
Bug#303528; Package findutils. (full text, mbox, link).

Acknowledgement sent to "James Youngman" <jay@gnu.org>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Andreas Metzler <ametzler@debian.org>. (full text, mbox, link).

Message #10 received at 303528@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "James Youngman" <jay@gnu.org>
To: 303528@bugs.debian.org
Subject: upstream
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:26:03 +0000
This is an upstream bug.

Tags added: upstream Request was from Andreas Metzler <ametzler@debian.org> to control@bugs.debian.org. (Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:51:05 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

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