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

[Chris Boot]

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

Thanks,
Chris

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