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... why? A pact, from Latin pactum ("something agreed upon"), is a formal agreement.
by zensavona 11y ago
... why?
A pact, from Latin pactum ("something agreed upon"), is a formal agreement.
- otoburb 11y agoThe OP is not upset about the name alone, but against the twinge of realization that dawns after reading the accompanying description.
- logical42 11y agoI'm not exactly sure it's possible to describe killing processes much differently.. I mean the Linux command to kill a process is 'kill'..
- DrScump 11y agothe kill command just sends the signal of the user's choice, not necessarily SIGTERM (the default) or SIGKILL or whatever. This lets you change behavior in a running process from the shell by triggering a desired handled signal.
- leriksen 11y agoHopefully they never come across parents reaping children....