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I learned that on UNIX System V machines such as Solaris, killall ignores parameters and just tries to kill everything [1]. Maybe it's better to use pkill on GN
by waeyn 13y ago
I learned that on UNIX System V machines such as Solaris, killall ignores parameters and just tries to kill everything [1]. Maybe it's better to use pkill on GNU/Linux instead.
1: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/816-5166/killall-1m/index.html http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/816-5166/killall-1m/inde...
- k3oni 13y agoYep pkill is recommended on UNIX based OSs like Openindiana/Solaris etc. On these killall will actually do what it's name says :)
- vacri 13y agoWhat's the use case of that?
- moyix 13y agoIt survives in Linux as killall5 (the 5 being a reference to System V Unix). It's used during shutdown to send SIGTERM to all processes, then SIGKILL to kill off any stragglers.
- midas007 13y agoCleaning up after a user's process that has something that's effectively a fork-bombing. Also, terminating an employee.