[geeks] killall (virtually)

[Ken Hansen]

Because "ShitTheBuildingIsOnFire" is too long... ;^)

Probably their "flavor" of Unix doesn't have a halt command, or, some pointy-head mid-level type thought it would be useful, and the engineering types were too tired to argue...

Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua D. Boyd [mailto:jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu]
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 3:08 PM
To: 'geeks at sunhelp.org'
Subject: RE: [geeks] killall (virtually)


So, why would anyone want a killall that literally kills all as opposed to
a halt command?

--
Joshua Boyd

On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Ken Hansen wrote:

> > he laughed.
> 
> That is a reasonable sounding boss. Besides, the achine *did* crash, killing every process pretty much stopped it dead I'd suspect...
> 
> ;^)
> 
> Ken
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Bradford [mailto:mrbill at mrbill.net]
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 6:13 PM
> To: geeks at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [geeks] Re: [SunRescue] Help!
> 
> <snip>
> 
> I discovered the "killall" behavior on IRIX the hard way.
> 
> "killall -9 httpd"
> 
> *everything stops*
> 
> "aw shit."
> 
> <quickly tell everyone the main CVS server crashed, reboot it>
> 
> My boss goes "okay, *I* know you're BSing, what did you do?"
> 
> "killall isnt the same on IRIX as it is on linux"
> 
> he laughed.
> 
> <snip>
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