Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!pyramid!csg 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 Lines: 10 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. :-)