On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Kevin P. Neal wrote:

# On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 02:16:54PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
# > In article <20000317080737.A28020@tome.neutralgood.org>,
# > Kevin P. Neal <kpneal@pobox.com> wrote:
# > >
# > >What about programs that have multiple processes which need to be
# > >killed?
# > >
# > >Case in point: Infoseek's Ultraseek server.
# > 
# > Usually killing the parent process kills all the children, or the software
# > has a command to kill the jobs.
# 
# Usually. Not always. 
# 
# Case in point: Infoseek's Ultraseek server. 
# 
# Plus, in the Ultraseek case, the parent *must* be killed before the
# child.

Then the software is broken.  Any software that depends on a special script
to handle the process flow is Broken As Designed.

				--*greywolf;
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