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From: newton@monty.apana.org.au (Mark Newton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
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Subject: Re: SIGKILL and kill
References: <52580002@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com>
Message-ID: <9304299140@monty.apana.org.au>
Organization: APANA South Australia - State mail hub
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 93 20:30:08 +0930
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reink@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Reinier Kleipool) writes:
> If You want to alter the behavior of the kill Program, maybe it
> could be altered is such a way that if the user asks for signal 9
> the kill program first sends a SIGTERM, sleeps for ten seconds,
> and then send a SIGKILL.
> In this manner users are still free to use (abuse) SIGKILL, but
> (victim)programs would still have a 10 sec grace period....
That's not going to be fantastically useful if the user happens to
be using a shell which supports kill as a builtin.
Is recompiling the shell with this feature considered overkill? :-)
- mark
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