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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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To: Michel Wilson <michel@procyon14.yi.org>
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Michel Wilson wrote:
> Ever thought about how you would kill a process: kill -9 127892752 doesn't
> sound very appealing to me.

man killall(1).  Kill processes by name.

> So you'd also need to implement a mechanism that allows for 'easy' selection
> of processes to kill, for example giving every process with the same name
> a unique identifier (like httpd_0, httpd_1, httpd_2 and so on).

huh?

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