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Re:Understanding how killall works using strace by vacri on Sunday December 22, 2013 @10:53PM (#6953033)
What's the use case of that?
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Re:Understanding how killall works using strace by moyix on Sunday December 22, 2013 @11:05PM (#6953058)
It 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.
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Re:Understanding how killall works using strace by midas007 on Monday December 23, 2013 @06:20AM (#6953846)
Cleaning up after a user's process that has something that's effectively a fork-bombing.

Also, terminating an employee.

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