Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Dec 2001 01:34:45 -0800 | From | Chris Wright <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kill(-1,sig) |
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* Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com) wrote: > > On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote: > > > > The new POSIX 1003.1-2001 is explicit about what kill(-1,sig) > > is supposed to do. Maybe we should follow it. > > Well, we should definitely not do it in 2.4.x, at least not until proven > that no real applications break. > > But I applied it to 2.5.x, let's see who (if anybody) hollers.
I had to back this change out of 2.5.1 in order to get a sane shutdown. killall5 -15 is commiting suicide ;-(
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