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

[Sean Hunter]

Doh!</slaps head>

Sean

On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 12:06:30PM +0000, Matthew Kirkwood wrote:
> 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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