On 05/09/2012 04:09 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > probably not that big of a deal, but the reason i like using > ptrace(PTRACE_KILL) over a raw kill() is that you are less likely to kill the > wrong process by accident. maybe not that big of a deal in practice though. And you can do tgkill instead. It was specifically invented to handle the reuse case. -- Pedro Alves -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html