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

[Alan Cox]

> 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.
> 
> If a process wants to commit suicide too, why doesn't it just do that
> after?

This is the best suggestion I've yet seen. kill() is defined at C library
level so glibc can do the self kill at the end if POSIX_ME_HARDER is
in the environment