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From: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kill(-1,sig)
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In article <20011217115344.C14112@dev.sportingbet.com>,
Sean Hunter  <sean@dev.sportingbet.com> wrote:
>On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 12:41:21PM -0200, vda wrote:
>> Hmm. Looking at killall5 source I see
>> 
>> kill(-1, STOP);
>> I guess STOP will stop killall5 too? Not good indeed.
>> 
>Couldn't it just do:
>
>sigprocmask (SIG_BLOCK, &new, &savemask);
>... in other words, block signals, do the killing, then unblock?

You can't block SIGSTOP and SIGKILL

Mike.
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