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From: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Setting process groups
Message-ID: <11695@pyramid.pyramid.com>
Date: 17 Dec 87 00:52:48 GMT
References: <1765@unc.cs.unc.edu> <910@mcgill-vision.UUCP> <13102@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
Reply-To: csg@pyramid.UUCP (Carl S. Gutekunst)
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA
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In article <13102@comp.vuw.ac.nz> duncan@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Duncan McEwan) writes:
>... on our pyramid running OSx 4.0, killpg returns no error if it could kill
>any of the processes in the process group. On a VAX running 4.3bsd it returns
>EPERM if there are any that it couldn't kill.  Is OSx's behaviour a hangover
>from it's 4.2 origins, or is it a Pyramid `enhancement' to the way 4.3 works.

This is straight 4.2BSD. Actually, a lot of OSx is still 4.2BSD where we had
no compelling reason to change it. This is the "if it works, don't fix it"
method of software development. :-)