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. by the way, you forgot to mention that you kill -STOP the process group, 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 ;) -- guy "For world domination - press 1, or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
