From: Chris Wright <chris@wirex.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kill(-1,sig)
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 01:34:45 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011217013445.A30669@figure1.int.wirex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <UTC200112141734.RAA20953.aeb@cwi.nl> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112141224200.2957-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112141224200.2957-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 12:25:05PM -0800
* 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 ;-(
cheers,
-chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-17 9:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-14 17:34 [PATCH] kill(-1,sig) Andries.Brouwer
2001-12-14 20:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-17 9:34 ` Chris Wright [this message]
2001-12-17 14:41 ` vda
2001-12-17 11:53 ` Sean Hunter
2001-12-17 12:06 ` Matthew Kirkwood
2001-12-17 12:30 ` Sean Hunter
2001-12-17 12:16 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2001-12-17 16:06 ` vda
2001-12-14 20:36 ` Simon Kirby
2001-12-14 20:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-14 20:49 ` Simon Kirby
2001-12-15 10:19 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-12-15 14:03 ` Martin Josefsson
2001-12-15 23:09 ` Simon Kirby
2001-12-16 8:26 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-12-17 8:50 ` Helge Hafting
2001-12-17 20:51 ` Udo A. Steinberg
2001-12-17 21:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-17 22:06 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-12-18 17:27 ` Alan Cox
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-12-14 21:22 Andries.Brouwer
2001-12-17 7:01 Richard Gooch
2001-12-17 11:41 ` vda
2001-12-17 16:41 ` Richard Gooch
2001-12-17 23:38 Andries.Brouwer
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