In article <9601111940.AA24115@vas.viewlogic.com>,
Open Carefully -- Contents Under Pressure <greywolf@captech.com> wrote:
> It would be A Cool Thing [TM] if one could say 'echo KILL > /proc/<pid>/ctl'
> and the process would die... (subject to normal access controls, of course).

If you want to take this further, why not "rmdir /proc/<pid>" as kill -9?

It's easy to get carried away with this though, much like people do with
operator overloading in C++.