On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 01:38:30AM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 11:20:24PM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> >
> > the shutdown scripts
> > include "kill -15 -1; sleep 2; kill -9 -1". The "-1" means
> > "all processes except me". That means init will get hit with
> > SIGTERM occasionally during shutdown, and that might cause
> > weird things to happen.
>
> -1 mean everything but init.
Oh, maybe you mean killall5 -TERM?
Which would send a SIGTERM to all processes but the one in his
own session.
(Hey look, you wrote that manpage.)
Kurt
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