> maybe you should have a look at the tiny "oneit" utility that is
> part of/included in ToyBox ( http://landley.net/toybox/ ):
ToyBox also provides its own rewrite of BusyBox init which is (almost ?)
compatible with the latter but consists of less code.
it is licensed under the very permissive T
> pkill(1), killall(1) and killall5(8) all retrieve a process list and
> kill them one by one, instead of calling kill(-1, signal), so a race
> condition can happen thats let some process escape the final SIGKILL.
interesting. i have not considered this at all.
looks like kill( -1, sig ) from pr
> Before the reboot(2) system call, at some point you need to
> kill all processes ("kill -9 -1") so you can unmount filesystems
> and *then* call reboot(2).
indeed.
> That's relying on a behaviour that Linux implements, and possibly
> BSD too, but that is not specified in POSIX: that the proce
