RFC: killall5 for SIGSTOP and SIGCONT

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Tue Apr 3 06:17:04 UTC 2012


On Tuesday 03 April 2012 04:31, ralda at gmx.de wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> in some cases for system maintenance (e.g. shortly before putting the
> system on standby or sleep) it could be wise to stop all running
> processes (and let them continue after doing some operation). So how to
> achieve this in shell scripts ...
> 
> There is a nice command to send signals to all processes except the own
> session, init and it even allows to exclude specified processes ... the
> killall5 ... but it fails to work on SIGSTOP :-(

Thanks for the report. Fixed in git.

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vda


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