From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] 'stuck' windows.
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:44:52 -0400
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> It's happened to me quite often. I think rc should kill all
> subprocesses on exit

No.  It shouldn't, and it doesn't.

> How I wish Plan 9 had kill -9! The kernel uses the note
>
> 	sys: killed
>
> internally, but notify(2) doesn't say so. I wonder...

Plan 9 is not Unix.

	echo kill >/proc/pid/ctl
	slay dossrv | rc

Russ