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Wut? When logging out via the OS supplied method this is handled for the user. Why on earth would a user have to call kill -1 on logout? My comment was from t

by lstyls 9y ago

Wut? When logging out via the OS supplied method this is handled for the user. Why on earth would a user have to call kill -1 on logout? My comment was from the perspective of an application developer.

ars 9y ago
`kill(-1, ...)` is a syscall, it's not an application command. > this is handled for the user. And that's how - they call that syscall. Maybe you didn't realize. Notice the parenthesis? It's a function call in a programming language. The command line program is just a passthrough to the syscall. And when rebooting you do need the command line program, so preventing it from passing -1 through doesn't make sense either.