[Toybox] [PATCH 2/2] killall: implement -w.

enh enh at google.com
Thu Jul 25 19:59:34 PDT 2019


Yeah, the man page warns you that it's not foolproof. Seems relatively well
used outside Android.

Maybe that's why our desktop machines have such a large pid_max these days?
😀

On Thu, Jul 25, 2019, 19:37 Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:

> On 7/25/19 5:31 PM, enh via Toybox wrote:
> > This isn't currently used in AOSP, but it is used in some of the other
> > codebases I can easily search, and it's a better fix for test flakiness
> > than inserting a sleep.
>
> If PIDs wrap and create new processes... but probably not a real concern?
>
> Rob
>
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