[issue1716] can't stop "bmake" (without args) in /usr/pkgsrc

Matthew Dillon dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Wed Apr 7 09:29:16 PDT 2010


:	while killall -9 bmake; do cat /dev/null; done
:
:	Should do the job and drop out when they're all gone.
:
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:Steve O'Hara-Smith                          |   Directable Mirror Arrays

    This is primarily due to a bug in bmake.  bmake temporarily SIG_IGN's
    various signals before installing their signal handler so if a lot of
    bmakes are running and you hit ^C, sometimes some don't get killed.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at backplane.com>





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