Re: [PATCH] kill(-1,sig)

[Simon Kirby <sim@netnation.com>]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 05:34:48PM +0000, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:

> + * POSIX (2001) specifies "If pid is -1, sig shall be sent to all processes
> + * (excluding an unspecified set of system processes) for which the process
> + * has permission to send that signal."
> + * So, probably the process should also signal itself.
> -			if (p->pid > 1 && p != current) {
> +			if (p->pid > 1) {

Argh, I hate this.  I fail to see what progress a process could make if
it kills everything _and_ itself.  I frequently use "kill -9 -1" to kill
everything except my shell, and now I'll have to kill everything else
manually, one by one.

If a process wants to commit suicide too, why doesn't it just do that
after?

Simon-

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