On 19 Mar 2002, Paul Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I filed this as bug 4150 http://rsync.samba.org/cgi-bin/rsync/
> 
> We had a few hundred hung processes and reached the limit for "max user
> processes" (see the ulimit command).   rsync did not handle this very
> well.  It passed -1 as a PID to kill().  When kill() gets -1, it kills all
> of the processes owned by that user, or if run by root, all processes.
 
Bloody hell.

Yes, I think that's a real bug.  Thanks for yourhelp.

It'll be in the next release.

-- 
Martin


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