Re: [PATCH] kill(-1,sig)

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Simon Kirby wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 05:34:48PM +0000, [e-mail] wrote:
>
> > + * POSIX (2001) specifies "If pid is -1, sig shall be sent to all processes
> > + * (excluding an unspecified set of system processes) for which the process
> > + * has permission to send that signal."
> > + * So, probably the process should also signal itself.
> > -			if (p->pid > 1 && p != current) {
> > +			if (p->pid > 1) {
>
> Argh, I hate this.  I fail to see what progress a process could make if
> it kills everything _and_ itself.  I frequently use "kill -9 -1" to kill
> everything except my shell, and now I'll have to kill everything else
> manually, one by one.

I do agree, I've used "kill -9 -1" myself.

However, let's see how problematic it is to try to follow it (in 2.5.x,
not 2.4.x) and if people really complain.

Count one for the complaints, but I want more to overrule a published
standard.

(Of course, a language lawyer will call "self" a "system process",
although I cannot for the life of me really see what kind of excuse we
would come up with to do se ;)

		Linus