Re: assorted gnome-core patches

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Jody Goldberg <jgoldberg home com> writes:
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 02:23:46PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > 
> > oaf-slay kills all processes that may have been launched by oaf,
> > because they are in an oafinfo file. killall -g oafd kills all
> > processes that were actually launched by oaf.
> > 
> > oaf-slay would work, but it's an even worse hack than the killall. ;-)
> 
> oaf-slay kills all processes that contain the name of an executable
> that could be launched by oaf somewhere on their command lines.
> 
> Lets say I have an oaf launched executable 'guppi-gnumeric' whose
> sources live in guppi3/src/guppi-gnumeric/*.  oaf-slay will kill
> 
>     vi guppi3/src/guppi-gnumeric/foo.c
> or
>     gdb guppi3/src/guppi-gnumeric/test
> 
> This is not a good idea.
> 

Yup.

Havoc

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