Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Nov 2005 06:48:19 +0100 | From | Willy Tarreau <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] un petite hack: /proc/*/ctl |
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On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 04:33:54AM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 12:23:19AM +0000, Chris Boot wrote: > > On 29 Nov 2005, at 0:28, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > > >echo kill >/proc/$PID/ctl > > > send SIGKILL to process > > > > > >echo term >/proc/$PID/ctl > > > send SIGTERM to process > > > > Pardon me for my ignorance, but what's wrong with the following? > > > > kill -KILL $PID > > and > > kill -TERM $PID > > kill(1) existence.
This is non sense, kill is included in the shell ! And if you need to agressively reduce a binary size, a simple call to kill() will be shorter than sprintf(), open(), write(), close().
> Not that I'm seriously proposing patch for inclusion.
so please don't pollute the list with useless patches that take time to review.
Regards, Willy
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