Re: [RFC] un petite hack: /proc/*/ctl

[Alexey Dobriyan]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 12:23:19AM +0000, Chris Boot wrote:
> On 29 Nov 2005, at 0:28, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> >echo kill >/proc/$PID/ctl
> >	send SIGKILL to process
> >
> >echo term >/proc/$PID/ctl
> >	send SIGTERM to process
>
> Pardon me for my ignorance, but what's wrong with the following?
>
> kill -KILL $PID
>     and
> kill -TERM $PID

kill(1) existence. Not that I'm seriously proposing patch for inclusion.

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