Re: procps

[James Troup <J.J.Troup@scm.brad.ac.uk>]

Brian White <bcwhite@verisim.com> writes:

> > Scripts shouldn't be using killall.
> 
> Any special reason why not?

menu's postinst does this:

 killall -KILL update-menus 2> /dev/null

Let's say Joe User on the machine has written his own script called
"update-menus" (completely unrelated) and it's running while the root
user upgrades menu, bham, Joe User's script is killed for no good
reason.

> Either way, I'm sure some packages use it and that'll need to be
> fixed in one way or another.

Of course, but not by encouraging the use of killall.

-- 
James


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