-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Say you do the equivalent to "kill -9" in a system that does not have > this guarantee. Then _every_ process that is currently in an > invocation to the killed program will be stuck indefinitely. It seems > to me that you need _something_ in the system to compensate for that. > Otherwise you rely on all programs (that you potentially call) to be > always terminable in a friendly manner, ie with SIGTERM. That seems > to be optimistic, given that there easily can be systematic and > probabilistic failures causing SIGTERM to not work anymore. >
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