Understanding how killall works using strace

Re:Understanding how killall works using strace by jlgaddis on Sunday December 22, 2013 @11:44PM (#6953130)

If you're a Linux guy/girl and you someday end up in charge of a Solaris box, just remember that killall acts very differently!

I almost think this is one of those "rights of passage" -- that everybody must do this at least once. You'll learn it the hard way but then you'll never forget...

Kinda like many years ago when I was (new to Cisco gear and) making changes to a firewall ruleset -- remotely -- and decided to take a shortcut because I was supposed to go meet friends and so I was in a hurry.

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Re:Understanding how killall works using strace by fsniper on Monday December 23, 2013 @01:29AM (#6953348)

Very bad incompatibility between oses indeed. It hurts when you learn but you can never ever forget. I feel for you.

Actually I did not learned the hard way. But I was about to..

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Re:Understanding how killall works using strace by jdswain on Monday December 23, 2013 @10:21AM (#6954653)

Never done this myself, but have done worse really. I was working at Sun a long time ago and we had a big shared development server. Being familiar with linux killall I suggested to my boss that he use killall instead of killing processes one by one. So he tried it out. Whole team had to wait quite a while for the server to restart. :-)

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