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
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.1 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
Santa Claus is coming to town...
He knows if you've been sleeping,
He knows if you're awake;
He knows if you've been bad or good,
So he must be Attorney General Ashcroft.
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