Re: killall, symlinks, and signal delivery?

On Wed, Sep 08, 2021 at 02:10:47AM +0100, Jamie Landeg-Jones wrote:
> Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Yes, that's likely.  So, it could be a change in behavior
> > for ImageMagick.  Your suggested ps command doesn't provide
> 
> I don't know when the change was made, but the pkg for ImageMagik 6.9.12.12
> has "display" as a stand-alone binary, whilst the pkg for 7.0.11.12 has it
> as a softlink.
> 
> So yeah, either an upstream change, or a port change.
> 

Yes, indeed, we have a winner.  On my laptop, I have ImageMagick6 and
on my desktop ImagMagick7.  'killall display' works as expected on
mu laptop and fails on my desktop.

Thanks for the insights!

-- 
Steve