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-rw-r--r--usr.bin/killall/killall.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/killall/killall.c b/usr.bin/killall/killall.c
index 463ea5cd33be..7be6bc620ae8 100644
--- a/usr.bin/killall/killall.c
+++ b/usr.bin/killall/killall.c
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ main(int ac, char **av)
}
if (user) {
uid = strtol(user, &ep, 10);
- if ((ep - user) < strlen(user)) {
+ if (*user == '\0' || *ep != '\0') { /* was it a number? */
pw = getpwnam(user);
if (pw == NULL)
errx(1, "user %s does not exist", user);