Re: killall is optional
Previously Bill Allombert wrote:
> The lintian warning info for killall-is-dangerous should add warning about
> this issue.
That warning is not because the package isn't guaranteed to be there.
but because using killall in a maintainer script is just plain
dangerous since you have no way to check if you are killing the intended
process or another process from a user which just happens to have the
same name.
Wichert.
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