[techtalk] Is there a Kill -8, too?

[Dakota Surmonde]

On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Cathy James wrote:

> 	Also be warned that this is OS-dependent.  On Solaris, killall
> kills *all* active processes not required by a clean shutdown procedure.

Oh yes. Actually, on most unixes this is the case..linux is
special..linux's killall is more useful imo, but do watch out when you
switch platforms (says she who has done 'killall' on remote machines and
immediately had to talk to mr. rebooter)

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