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mhoye

@thegibson without going into the details, there are plenty of easy ways to learn that “killall” means very different things to different unixes, but I did not choose any of them.

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Jack McKracken

@mhoye I remember learning that the hard way 😂
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Craig Maloney ☕

@mhoye @TheGibson Oh god. I remember a Digital Alpla OSF/1 computer that... well, let's just say that at the root level it had problems with scope.

And by scope I mean killing everything including the PID I wanted gone.

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