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Re:Kill Me Softly – Kill processes in a reliable manner by dimman on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @05:17PM (#8759938)
I'd recommend adding some kind of max retries mechanism because otherwise, if process ignores SIGTERM for instance, you can wait forever.
Re:Kill Me Softly – Kill processes in a reliable manner by pepve on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @05:41PM (#8760049)
I personally prefer utilities like this just do one simple task and perform it well. And adding a timeout would just complicate things unnecessarily, compared to the alternative of pressing Ctrl-C when you feel you've waited long enough.
Re:Kill Me Softly – Kill processes in a reliable manner by khrf on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @05:21PM (#8759955)
And again you'll get this:

> This tool will hide or allow you to ignore important issues with your system.