Re: closefd: closes a file of any process

[Richard Gooch]

[e-mail] writes:
> (* perferrably the whole name would have to be typed into kill. It makes
>    me sick whenever I see some id^Hnsufficiently educated user kill -9
>    everything in sight just because somebody told them that kill -9
>    always works.)

Amen, brother! It makes me cringe when I see kill -9 as the method of
first resort.

Maybe someone should re-write kill(1) (and shell built-in variants) so
that if (!user_in_admin_group) then you have to type in:
% kill -most_drastic_kill_which_should_only_be_done_as_a_last_resort <pid>

Of course, then every drongo and his dog will set up an alias.
Hm. Maybe it should work this way:
% kill -9 <pid>
Repeat after me: "I know THIS is EXTREME, but I'VE tried EVERYTHING else"
but convert to lowercase as appropriate for correct grammar:

Let's see 'em try and cut-and-paste themselves out of that! And read
from /dev/tty, not from stdin :->

				Regards,

					Richard....
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