On Oct 29, 2011 4:58 PM, "Tom Gundersen" <tomegun@archlinux.org> wrote:

In principle, I'm worried that, with the right ammonut of bad luck, we could fork off some process at exactly the wrong time which escapes the killall logic.

This, by the way, highlights the frailty of the killall stuff.

Why not make use of the `name` cgroup in same way systemd does? Then you can simply: kill $(</path/to/cgroup/tasks) ... in a loop for a couple iterations as needed. C Anthony