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

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Tuesday 29 November 2005 07:53, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 06:48:19AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 04:33:54AM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > > 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
> >
> > so please don't pollute the list with useless patches that take time
> > to review.
> 
> Sorry, I've just noticed that you marked the subject "[RFC]" and not
> "[PATCH]". Anyway I still find it useless :-)

It's just fits into "Everything is a file" and 
eliminates the need of a kill syscall.

Needs to be complemented with means to do
kill 0 ("All processesin the current process group are signaled"),
kill -1 ("All processes with pid larger than 1 are signaled") and
kill -n ("All processes in process group n are signaled").
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vda
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