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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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