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From: sqweek <sqweek@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 2:51 AM, Iruata Souza <iru.muzgo@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Eris Discordia
>  <eris.discordia@gmail.com> wrote:
>  > I  think it will be possible to kill the spawned children, because they are
>  >  all bound to have pids larger than a certain number.
>
>  not if the pids are randomized as in OpenBSD.

 Easy to take care of in unix, just don't kill anything until you've
suspended all the fork happy procs. Is there a fork analog in plan 9?

-sqweek, who should just read proc(3) but since he's commenting anyway...