On 13/08/2015 20:02, Andrew Schulman wrote:
Anyway, that answers my question. If I want to be sure a process from one of my
packages exits, I need to put a killall into its preremove script.
I've put a "pkill ." in all scripts that run setup (with the requisite
are you sure? y/N).
Ugh, both psmisc (killall) and procps (pkill) aren't in base, so both of
those may fail.
What problem are you trying to solve here?
IMHO you should not kill a process without user confirmation, and there
is (currently) no way your preremove script to do that.
