On Monday 17 December 2001 07:34, Chris Wright wrote:
> * 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 ;-(

Hmm. Looking at killall5 source I see

kill(-1, STOP);
for(each proc with p.sid!=my_sid) kill(proc, sig);
kill(-1, CONT);

I guess STOP will stop killall5 too? Not good indeed.

We have two choices: either back it out or find a sane way to implement 
killall5 with new kill -1 behaviour.
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