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cpncrunch
on Aug 21, 2014
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fork() can fail
I think azinman2 was criticizing kill(), not fork(). It would make more sense to have a separate system call, something like killall().
masklinn
on Aug 21, 2014
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You can criticise both, and more importantly criticise C for its inability to create sensible APIs: in a good design, fork() would have exclusive domains for a PID, an Error and a Child result and you couldn't confuse an error for a pid.
SeanLuke
on Aug 22, 2014
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> criticise C for its inability to create sensible APIs
Where in the C manual is kill() described again?
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