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`killall` was different on Solaris than Linux; too. Learning those differences by coming to Linux from Solaris was liberating; there were less limits generally
by h2odragon 3y ago
`killall` was different on Solaris than Linux; too.
Learning those differences by coming to Linux from Solaris was liberating; there were less limits generally. The other way around was less fun: as in this example, code that had run fine before was now subject to weird behaviors that were caused by underlying system assumptions being different. At least Solaris usually had decent documentation.
- nullc 3y agoI took down the production environment once with killall. The conversation explaining to management about why I ran something called "killall" and didn't expect it to kill all was very tense.
- valleyer 3y agoFor the uninitiated (like me), killall in Solaris kills "all active processes not directly related to the shutdown procedure" (not those with a certain name as the Linux/psmisc killall does). https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E86824_01/html/E54764/killall-1m.html https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E86824_01/html/E54764/killall-1m....