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		tyingq on Feb 2, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Intel to Discontinue Itanium 9700 ‘Kittson’ Proces... "killall - kill all active processes killall is used by shutdown (1M) to kill all active processes not directly related to the shutdown procedure " So, intended for use by shutdown(1M) and nothing else. It's basically a completely different utility to the Linux one. They just happen to, unfortunately, share the same name.

jandrese on Feb 2, 2019 [–]

It really shouldn't even be in the path. There's basically no reason for an admin to run it by hand.

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