On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 11:56:01AM +0300, guy keren wrote:
>
> On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote:
>
> > Sorry for not reading it (apparently wasn't here, maybe hackers-il,
> > but google doesn't find it), but what I usually do is kill -STOP
> > all of them, and only then kill -SOMETHINGTERMINAL.
> > Unless the user intended to abuse the system, and wrote a signal
> > handler for STOP, it would work well (and does in practice, with
> > all the OS course students I have here).
>
> a user cannot write a signal handler for the 'STOP' signal. this one, and
> the 'KILL' signal, are un-stopable in a user application.
Yes, forgot that :-(
>
> by the way, you forgot to mention that you kill -STOP the process group,
Actually, I do something like
ps auxww | awk '/^didi/ {print $2}' | xargs kill -STOP
> rather then the processes directly one by one. i still remember the note
> regarding this that you (or someone else?) placed in bar ilan university's
> terminals farm, some 10+ years ago ;)
Not me - I have never been there. I both studied and work here (at tau).
>
> --
> guy
>
> "For world domination - press 1,
> or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy
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Didi
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