Messages in this thread | | | From | Andries.Brouwer@cwi ... | Date | Fri, 14 Dec 2001 21:22:34 GMT | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kill(-1,sig) |
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> Of course, a language lawyer will call "self" a "system process"
No, the standard very explicitly allow signalling oneself. (And Linux also allowed that, e.g. in kill(0,sig), only until now not in kill(-1,sig).)
>> Argh, I hate this. I fail to see what progress a process could make >> if it kills everything _and_ itself.
Note that kill() is just a function that sends a signal. The signal may well be SIGWINCH or SIGSTOP or so.
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