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

Matthew Kirkwood (matthew@hairy.beasts.org)
Mon, 17 Dec 2001 12:06:30 +0000 (GMT)


On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Sean Hunter wrote:

> > Hmm. Looking at killall5 source I see
> >
> > kill(-1, STOP);
> > for(each proc with p.sid!=my_sid) kill(proc, sig);
> > kill(-1, CONT);
> >
> > I guess STOP will stop killall5 too? Not good indeed.

> Couldn't it just do:
[..]
> ... in other words, block signals, do the killing, then unblock?

SIGSTOP and SIGKILL can't be blocked.

Matthew.

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