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On 4/12/25 7:47 AM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
> On 2025-04-12 12:21, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
>> Le 07-04-2025, Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> a écrit :
>>> Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> wrote:
>>>> Le 06-04-2025, Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> a écrit :
>>>>> On 2025-04-05 15:44, Marc Haber wrote:
>>>>>> "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>>> On 2025-04-04 15:40, Marc Haber wrote:
>>>>>>>> I am an old fart myself, and I refrain from using killall since it
>>>>>>>> does different things on Solaris than on Linux.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I don't have or do any Solaris.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And if you do, you'll kill all.
>>>>>
>>>>> That's fine.
>>>>
>>>> Same for me. I'm not using Solaris and killall always did what I 
>>>> wanted,
>>>> so except for a good reason, I'll keep using it.
>>>
>>> The good reason is accident prevention. Like putting on a seat belt.
>>> Or not driving on the other side of the road even if noone's there.
>>
>> For me, it's easier to avoid accident by giving the name of the program
>> I want to stop to killall, than by giving the number of the process to
>> kill. By far. Because I can make a mistake in copying the process number
>> or in looking at the line in which it's displayed. When it's very
>> difficult to make a mistake using the name and the tabular key to use
>> the name of the process.
>>
>> So, for me, killall is by far the best way to prevent accidents. And
>> knowing it's working differently on slowlaris, which I don't use, isn't
>> an interesting reason for me to stop using it.
> 
> Same here.
> 
> The only snag, of course, is that there can be multiple processes. 
> Hopefully we know that. Run killall as user, not root.


   Ya know ... big annoyances ... you CAN just re-boot
   the machine. Clears out LOTS of shit. Takes about
   60 seconds max these days.

   This is not perfect for EVERY possible app, but IS
   good for MOST of them.