Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Dec 2001 17:06:47 -0500 (EST) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kill(-1,sig) |
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On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Note that I've reverted the kill(-1...) thing in my personal tree: so far > I've gotten a lot of negative feedback, and the change doesn't seem to > actually buy us anything except for conformance to a unclearly weasel- > worded standards sentence where we could be even more weasely and just say > that "self" is a special process from the systems perspective. > > Linus >
Isn't the de-facto standard that:
kill -<sig> -1
... should send the signal to everyone but the one executing the call?
For years, the "quick way" to shut down a Unix system was:
kill -TERM -1 sync kill -KILL -1 sync umount -a
... hit power switch...
Eliminating the ability to shut down a system in a few seconds is gonna make a lot of persons unhappy --especially if one has to run the RH kiddie scripts that take forever......
Cheers, Dick Johnson
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